Monthly Archives: June 2012
Norfolk carers call for more financial and practical help
Two in five unpaid carers put off medical treatment because of the demands of their role, according to a new survey of 3,400 carers.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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Carers’ Week in Norfolk
Staff from a range of agencies will be on-hand with lots of information at Carers’ Week “roadshows” visiting the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Trust ,The James Paget Hospital, Cromer Hospital and towns throughout Norfolk including Dereham and Acle. In West Norfolk, a Carer’s Week event is taking place in King’s Lynn and Downham Market.
Tragedy of mother, 104, taking care of her daughter, 87, who suffers from dementia
- Garcia starts and ends every day by asking where her mother is
- Albert Garcia described relationship between his mother and grandmother as ‘spiritual ping-pong match’
- Rosario Schielzeth and her daughter Maria Garcia play six rounds of Bingo every night
- Mother and daughter love movies and recently watched Happy Feet 2 in 3D
- When Garcia was briefly married in the 1950s, she lived across the street from her mother
PUBLISHED: 21:02, 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:32, 19 June 2012
Eternal bond: Rosario Schielzeth (rear) and Maria Garcia (front) pictured together in their Sarasota, Florida, home a few days after Schielzeth’s 104th birthday
Children caring for parents in their old age is nothing new, but Rosario Schielzeth and Maria Garcia have turned the old formula upside-down as it is the 104-year-old mother who is looking after her dementia-plagued 87-year-old daughter.
The two women from Sarasota, Florida, have been inseparable for decades. Even when Garcia was married for five years in the 1950s and had her own home, it was across the street from her mom.
‘Literally, these two ladies have been together all their lives,’ said Albert Garcia, Maria’s 60-year-old son. ‘It’s a spiritual ping-pong match between both of them and that’s what keeps them going and alive.’
Garcia’s children are all grown up, with families and children of their own, and nowadays she relies more than ever on her centenarian mother for companionship.
Elderly care: Millions of pounds refunded in mistaken charges
The Welsh government has ordered a review of free care assessments.
Multi-million pound mistakes in charging sick, elderly people for nursing care they should have had free have been revealed by BBC Wales.
Health boards have already refunded £3.6m to patients who were originally told they were not entitled to NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding.
Millions of pounds in further refunds are anticipated as a backlog of almost 2,000 cases are determined.
