Spain is on track to reach its inoculation goal this summer as almost all of its care home residents have now received two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, the FED care-home association told Reuters on Friday.
Spanish prosecutors said Tuesday they have filed a criminal complaint against a Madrid care home doctor and its director over the Covid-related death of a resident, in the first such case in the capital region since the start of the pandemic
Conditions at elderly care homes in the Spanish regions of Madrid and Catalonia, where thousands died when the pandemic began, remain "alarming" despite improvements, Amnesty International has warned.
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With the virus killing thousands at elderly care homes across Spain, some residences remained safe without a single case to report, raising questions about what set them apart.
The MSF medical charity lamented Monday that many elderly COVID-19 victims are dying alone amid fears the virus will spread, urging greater efforts to ensure dignified deaths amid the pandemic.
Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.
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People in Spain are predicted to have the longest life expectancy in the world by 2040 – beating Japan into second place - mainly thanks to their Mediterranean diet.
Spanish pensioners are selling their flats for half the market price to buyers prepared to meet their one condition: that they allow the old people to live in their homes until they die.
A project to open an LGTB friendly retirement home has been given the green light by authorities in Madrid with plans to open it by the end of the year.
Tens of thousands of Spaniards rallied across the country on Saturday to demand better pensions as unions accused the government of seeking to privatise retirement benefits.
Eight senior citizens huddled around a table stare at a photo of a young Diego Maradona in a red and blue FC Barcelona jersey projected onto a screen at a Madrid retirement home.
He is 80 years old, has suffered a heart attack and quadruple bypass, but on Monday this Spanish grandfather will head off to start a new semester as an Erasmus student in Italy.
Spain’s Ana Vela, the oldest person in Europe, has died peacefully in her sleep at a nursing home in Barcelona, six weeks after celebrating her 116th birthday
The Civil Guard have arrested a British couple who ran an unregistered retirement home on the Costa Blanca, charging residents €3,000 per month and allegedly persuading them to hand over their assets.
Spain's population will shrink by 5.6 million in the next 50 years with much of the population aged over 65 and living alone, new official forecasts released on Tuesday warn.
