Category Archives: Older care
Older women become primary carers during partner's final days, research shows
The role of the family is crucial
New research shows that older women are often the primary carers for their partner when they reach the end of their life.
More than 60% of informal care is provided by a spouse or partner – mainly women between the age of 35 and 64.
East Lancs elderly could be left in financial black hole
Mr Key said his firm will struggle to pay its homecare workers the £7.20-an-hour rate.
EAST Lancashire’s pensioners could be left with no-one to care for them unless urgent action is taken to fill a financial black hole, it was claimed.
Private companies have joined a campaign to highlight the effects of implementing a new National Living Wage.
Elderly ‘being trapped’ in hospital, says Age UK
Elderly people are “trapped” in English hospitals in ever greater numbers as there is nowhere else for them to go, the charity Age UK has warned.
Its analysis shows patients spent a total of nearly 2.5 million days stuck in a hospital over the past five years.
Age UK said it was bad for patients’ health, a waste of NHS resources and a huge cost to taxpayers.
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