Host Angeline Albert talks to Joy Milne about what it's like to smell Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, cancer and other diseases.  Her rare hereditary condition also meant she could smell her husband's Parkinson's 12 years before he...

Host Jill Rennie talks to Kari Gerstheimer about why she set up the charity and how the charity is giving free legal advice to  thousands of elderly and disabled people to access social care when they need it and  how the lack of fund...

Host Jill Rennie talks to comedian and author Pope Lonergan about his new book where he shares his raw and honest account of his time working as a care worker, his thoughts on care workers’  wages and retention, the need for society and th...

Host Jill Rennie talks to Dr Jane Townson about care workers being denied sick pay because the government has scrapped the infection control fund exacerbating workforce shortages, the problems providers are currently having when they try...

Host Angeline Albert talks to Antony Loveless and former nurse Claire Hooper who describe how long Covid left them bedbound for the whole year in 2021. 

Host Sue Learner talks to Amanda Woodvine about the importance of respecting the beliefs of older vegetarians and vegans living in care homes, many of whom have dementia and will have forgotten they don't eat meat

Host Jill Rennie talks to Vic Rayner, CEO of the National Care Forum (NCF) about how social care is viewed in the eyes of the government since the pandemic, how the government should have handled the mandatory vaccine policy and how technology ...

Host Sue Learner talks to Camille Leavold, managing director of Abbots Care, a home care provider in the south east of England, about how they have been coping during the pandemic, what she thinks of mandatory vaccination for home care workers ...

Host Angeline Albert talks to traumatic brain injury expert Dr Willie Stewart who says footballs should be sold with a health warning because his study reveals professional footballers have a 5 times higher risk of getting Alzheimer's because o...

Host Jill Rennie talks to Stephen Chandler, president of ADASS, about adult social care, his appearance on BBC One's Panorama, the government's response to the pandemic and how care work is still undervalued and misunderstood.

Host Angeline Albert talks to care home manager Dawn Bunter about how her mental health was impacted after nine  residents died of Covid-19. 

Host Jill Rennie talks to Jess Crawford who has found at the age of 29 she has the gene for  frontotemporal dementia, why she chose to take the test, her decision to start making care plans including choosing a care home and how she is hel...

Host Angeline Albert talks to Care minister Helen Whately about government response to deaths in care homes,  care home visits etc

Host Jill Rennie talks to Arlene Phillips about her dancing career and the inspirational people she has met such as Freddie Mercury, Ridley Scott and Andrew Lloyd Webber.  She also talks about her time on Strictly Come Dancing and her depa...

 Host Jill Rennie talks to Grace Meadows, programme director of Music for Dementia, a charity boosting awareness of the benefits of music and its power to connect and stimulate people with dementia and reduce anxiety. They discuss t...

Host Sue Learner talks to Martin Jones, chief executive of Home Instead Senior Care about how caring for his father has shaped the way he leads the UK's biggest home care provider.  He reveals how Home Instead Senior Care has been coping d...

Host Angeline Albert talks to  care  home manager Mark Topps , who caught COVID-19 and  says care homes are struggling to get enough free PPE each day because of restrictions placed on them by the government.

Hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to Karolina Gerlich, executive director of the Care Workers Charity (CWC) about her phenomenal achievement in fundraising two million pounds for care workers during the pandemic and the new points-based im...

Host Angeline Albert asks why should care homes and home care agencies champion LGBT+ rights?Ramses Underhill-Smith, the MD of the UK's first LGBT+ home care firm, shares his personal insight into why it matters. Alice Wallace, director of ...

Host Angeline Albert speaks to care worker Anugwom Goodluck who battled to protect care home residents from COVID-19 but now faces deportation to Nigeria. He talks about fleeing from terrorists and why he fears his life is at risk.

Host Angeline Albert asks what is life like for a care home in lockdown? Care worker Jack Johnson, 91-year-old resident Doreen Empson & Danielle Bullent manager at Laurel Lodge care home talk about making residents laugh out loud in lockdow...

Host Angeline Albert talks to Anita Astle, the managing director of Wren Hall Nursing Home in Nottingham, where 13 residents died of Covid-19.   She also fell ill with Covid-19. The care home owner talks candidly about governm...

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to Martin Green, chief executive of Care England about his passion for the care sector which is nearly as strong as his passion for Newcastle as well as his sense of injustice and his desire to improve ...

Host Angeline Albert talks to Care minister Caroline Dinenage about her husband’s death threats, government thinking on social care reform and her encounters with the Kray twins. The minister talks about why a long term solution fo...

Co-hosts Jill Rennie and Sue Learner talk to TV broadcaster and Classic FM presenter John Suchet and his wife Nula about how dementia affected them individually and as a couple, how they coped putting their soul mates into a care home, their fe...