By NICK WEBSTER
REMEMBERING to eat or how to brush your teeth are some of the more important things in life that dementia sufferers can forget.
There are 4,000 dementia sufferers in Gloucestershire, needing social care at home.
Roy Bell, 92, and his wife, Peggy, of Bishop’s Cleeve, both have mixed dementia to varying degrees.
04:05, May 7 2013
Carers will get stronger rights to seek financial and practical help to relieve the burden of looking after loved ones as part of reforms to be set out in the Queen’s Speech, it has been reported.
The estimated seven million people who spend some time supporting relatives will get a statutory right to request professional back-up and adaptations to their own homes to ease the load, The Independent said.
Around £150 million will be allocated to cover costs and town halls – whose social care budgets are already under strain – will be required to explain why they have rejected applications. “This would be the very first time that carers will be given the same right to support as the person they look after,” a government source told the newspaper.
