The Daily Mirror attacks Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's "grave mistake" over plans for elderly care.
This is not just a mom's child care issue or a dad's elderly care issue.
What the NMC does not do is stipulate any mandatory requirements for elderly care.
Mark Easton examines some of the radical solutions being tested around England to help tackle the elderly care crisis.
The Local Government Association, which represents English local authorities, insisted councils were trying to protect elderly care despite swingeing cuts.
He believes a widespread lack of knowledge among elderly care homes about the training programmes available has contributed to the problem.
These are countries that are highly automated but at the same time they spend money on elderly care and the health system.
They leave this up to the individual educational institutions, so each will approach the teaching of elderly care in a variety of ways.
The leaders of three county councils have written to the Prime Minister demanding the government implements a limit on charges for elderly care.
It will have a bigger cancer centre and elderly care, general medicine, HIV and clinical infection wards will be brought up to modern standards.
Dr Anwar added it was working with outside agencies to resolve the shortage in rehabilitation beds and elderly care provision which was affecting hospital discharges.
Inside Out looks at some radical solutions to the problem of funding elderly care in the future on BBC One at 19:30 BST on Monday.
Inside Out: Elderly care special is broadcast on BBC One across England at 19:30 BST on Monday, 15 October and for seven days thereafter on the iPlayer.
You can find out more about the cost of caring for the elderly on Inside Out: Elderly care special on BBC One South on Monday at 19:30 GMT.
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Rabbi Julia Neuberger, chief executive of the King's Fund, said the money should be poured into areas like mental health and elderly care where it could make the most difference.
In the three elderly care wards at St Thomas's Hospital doors to toilets and washrooms have been colour-coded with bays to give patients visual prompts in finding their way round.
Tokyo has 1.5 million people over the age of 65 - representing 13% of the population - but ranks well below the national average in almost every indicator of elderly care.
Mr Blunkett, who served as work and pensions secretary under Tony Blair, told BBC Inside Out that a political solution to the problem of paying for elderly care was unlikely to emerge.
The end of grants given to 20 voluntary care organisations on the island are due to be announced - the department recently unveiled plans to close a elderly care home in Douglas.
Deputy Minister for Children and Social Services Gwenda Thomas AM assured members that local authorities and local health boards, who are responsible for elderly care, have contingencies in place should they become necessary.
Gillian Mead, a professor of stroke and elderly care medicine at the University of Edinburgh, told the BBC that a rough estimate of the effect was that treating 20 patients with anti-depressants could prevent one of them becoming depending on care.
Cecily Henderson clinical services manager, Care of the Elderly, Lothian Primary Care NHS Trust (Edinburgh) - For services to Elderly People.
Elderly-care worker Mary Bates said she also stood to lose money under the new contracts, which are due to start on 1 November.
Seven schools and one elderly day care centre have been closed because of a combination of problems caused by the wind and power cuts.
"Improvements made in the elderly patient care facilities will ensure safe, sustainable and quality care on a continuous basis and will enhance the patient experience, " she added.
"We are working with our multi-agency partners to look into concerns raised about the care of an elderly resident at a care home in Wraxall, " said Det Insp Mark Coleman.
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First the Democrats would have to put entitlements, the legally mandated programmes of Social Security (pensions), Medicare (health care for the elderly) and Medicaid (health care for the poor), on the table.
Find the cure for cancer, tend to the sick, nurse the elderly, take care of the children: whatever.
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He will say that hospitals are at risk of becoming "warehouses" for the elderly as social care support is being cut back.
Obama wants to make direct reductions in how much money Medicare spends, while Romney wants to turn Medicare into a voucher system where our elderly shop for care through private insurance.
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