Home Care v Care Home: What’s the Right Option for You?
Are you approaching a time where you need to make a decision about the kind of care you’ll need, and where you want to receive it? Many people find it very difficult to choose whether...
Category: Age Issues
Guide to better understand people with dementia – The Good Care Group
The Good Care Group offer high quality live in care services, for elderly people to live in their home for as long as possible. Their eye-opening and educational dementia guide offers a ‘person-centred’ analysis of...
Care homes’ charging pensioners’ families for care that should be free
A charity has called for top-up fees to be ‘optional, affordable and transparent’, after finding many families are subsidising the cost of their relative’s care home when it should be free. Families can choose to...
New breed of paramedics charged with keeping people out of hospital
Steven Morris for The Guardian 20/01/2016, gives us a viewpoint from Steve Hulks a community paramedic practitioner in Kent, whose job is about advising, reassuring – and easing pressure on A&E You do get a...
NHS chief demands political consensus on funding elderly and social care
Britain urgently needs a new political consensus on paying for elderly and social care, and the funding debate should consider the value of pensions and homes, the boss of the NHS has said. Denis Campbell...
Growing numbers of NHS patients waiting too long for A&E and cancer treatment
A series of crucial targets were missed in November including waiting time for urgent cancer treatment and ambulances Denis Campbell and Haroon Siddique writing for The Guardian (14/01/2016): Growing numbers of patients are waiting longer than...
Pensioners who fall at home will be charged £26 to be helped
Stephanie Linning for the MailOnline 17th Dec 2015: Pensioners who trip and fall at home will be charged £26 by their local council to come and pick them back up again The proposal by Tendring District...
We are now on the fast-track towards a care home collapse
Care chiefs’ message to Osborne: we fear a wave of homes closing down John Bingham writing in The Telegraph: Health and social care chiefs are demanding a crisis meeting with George Osborne and Jeremy Hunt to...
Negligence of elderly patients
Stories about negligence of elderly patients regularly appear in the media, but there are also many events that don’t make the headlines. Well-known figures are constantly debating ways to improve how we care for elderly...
The NHS could collapse within two years
Olivia Blair writing in The Independent – Former health minister Norman Lamb has warned the NHS could collapse within two years, unless the government pumps billions of pounds into services. Former health minister Norman Lamb...