Monthly Archives: June 2012
New laws announced to end age discrimination in hospitals
11:30am Sunday 24th June 2012 in News
Sutton and Cheam MP Paul Burstow has announced new laws aimed at ending age discrimination in hospitals.
Mr Burstow wants to ensure elderly people no longer face age discrimination when they need medical treatment.
The ban will mean older patients who feel they are receiving poor or undignified care due to their age, could take legal action from October.
Doctors will continue to make the final decision on treatment, but it will be illegal for the elderly to be denied treatment on age grounds alone.
Platform for disabled anglers opens at Rackerhayes Ponds
Disabled and their carers enabled to ‘go fishing.’
A platform which will enable disabled anglers to use a fishing site in Devon has opened.
The £16,000 project at Rackerhayes Ponds, in Newton Abbot, has been funded by the Environment Agency from the selling of rod licences.
The work has included building a 10m (33ft) long wooden platform, access ramp and cutting into the bank to create a footpath.
The six ponds at the site are used by the Newton Abbot Fishing Association.
Devoted Kingston carer says mum is number one
David Lulham and his mum
1:50pm Saturday 23rd June 2012 in News By Nazia Dewji
After 30 years of caring around the clock for his elderly mother David Lulham remains devoted to his “number one mum”, but there is one thing the 59-year-old finds hard – lack of sleep.
The ex-motor-mechanic who suffers from back problems, diabetes and cataracts has been living with his 92-year-old housebound mother for 36 years helping to care for her basic needs.
The 59-year-old said: “I sleep every now and then. I am up every hour-and-a-half or so to get my mum to the loo. She goes to the bathroom a lot. I get exhausted sometimes.
“Half the time in the day she is asleep, but as soon as I go to sleep she says ‘David’.
“I’m just used to it now though.”
