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Neighbours must help elderly more – Norman Lamb

1 January 2013 Last updated at 16:41

Neighbours must help elderly more – Norman Lamb

Elderly hand holding coins Ministers are considering a cap on social care fees

People should do more to help elderly neighbours and ease the pressure on care homes, the care minister has said.

Greater community support would prevent pensioners living a “dismal existence” and going into care unnecessarily, said Norman Lamb.

He told the Daily Telegraph local councils should be helped to rebuild a “neighbourly resilience“.

He also said a deal to cap personal spending on care fees would be unveiled in coming weeks.

The cap was a key recommendation of the government-appointed Dilnot Commission report into care in England, which said it should be set at between £25,000 and £50,000, with £35,000 the fairest figure.

Epileptic girl, 17, who choked on her own vomit in a hospital bed ‘was ignored by two nurses’

  • Lassania Aslam, 17, suffered five epileptic fits in the space of 24 hours
  • Caroline O’Rourke and Mary Subaste failed to look after her properly
  • Coroner’s court hear how hospital neglect contributed to her death

By Steve Robson

PUBLISHED: 09:35, 23 November 2012 | UPDATED: 10:53, 23 November 2012

Tragic: Lassania Aslam had learning disabilities and was a life-long sufferer of epilepsy

Tragic: Lassania Aslam had learning disabilities and was a life-long sufferer of epilepsyTwo nurses who ignored the plight of an epileptic girl who died after she inhaled her own vomit in a hospital bed face being struck off.

Lassania Aslam, 17, suffered five seizures in the space of 24 hours after being admitted to The Whittington Hospital in Archway, north London.

But senior nurses Caroline O’Rourke and Mary Subaste failed to ensure she was looked after properly as the 17-year-old’s brain was starved of oxygen, a tribunal heard.

 

Subaste had witnessed two of Lassania’s fits, one of which lasted for six minutes.

Get ready for work: what woman who needs constant care was told

Ruth Anim has learning difficulties, a heart problem and epilepsy. A work capability test by Atos said she should prepare for a job

Cecilia Anim describes how she was told to take her disabled daughter for a test to see if she could get a job Link to this videoRuth Anim needs constant one-to-one care, has no concept of danger and attends life skills classes to learn practical things like how to make a sandwich or a cup of tea. So it came as a considerable surprise to her mother, Cecilia, that an official assessment of her daughter’s abilities classified her as someone who would be capable of finding work in the near future.