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Those dreadful nights on being a Carer
Accidents during the night are really hard to bear. There you were, lost to the world in your balanced linen, and the next moment you’re up to your arms in it. It’s at moments like these that the worst side of your nature comes to the fore. Carers have been known to swear at their piglets in the middle of the night, even though it never does any good, never did, and never will.
Care home rated excellent – victim of the budget cuts
Care home victim of the budget cuts
Reporter: Richard Hooton
Date online: 11 March 2011
A CARE home rated as excellent is being closed due to council budget cuts.
Limecroft Care Home, White Bank Road, Limeside, which provides respite care and has a day centre for people with dementia, is due to shut at the end of the month.
Council chiefs say the centre is underused and places at other facilities will be used instead.
But families are upset that a respected establishment will go and say 21 residents are currently cared for there.
After its last inspection from the Care Quality Commission the home was given a three-star excellent rating.
One woman, whose mum is a patient, said: “The care there has been wonderful. It is such a shame to be shutting such a marvellous home.
“We haven’t got a clue what’s going to happen and when. The council seems to be trying to get the patients into private residential care. It seems to be shutting all the homes down. It doesn’t seem to be bothered about providing care any more.”
An old lady’s poem
When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it was wrongly assumed that she had nothing left of any value.
But later, when the nurses were going through her meagre possessions, they found this poem.
Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.
