Tagged: Care in the Community

Focus on Disability - For Disabled People, the Elderly and their Carers in the UK

Age Issues / Care Services / Focus on Disability

22nd January 2015

Britain’s Care of the Elderly – In Rapid, Calamitous Decline

Care of the elderly is in a state of “calamitous, quite rapid decline”, a leading charity boss has warned, with hundreds of thousands fewer people receiving care than five years ago. More than £1bn has...

Focus on Disability / Welfare

18th January 2015

Home Care Cuts – “Inhumane”

One of the main reasons there is such a crisis in hospitals is that a large number of elderly people are occupying beds because they can’t be sent home. And the reason they can’t is...