This week marks one year since Black April: the month that saw multiple, simultaneous benefit cuts piled in on the people living with disability, illness and poverty. This is not an anniversary for cards and chocolates. More an eviction notice in a brown envelope or a voucher for the local food bank.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
MS sufferer left ‘disgusted’ with care firm’s help
She was left without help
Published on the 07 April
2014
07:28
MULTIPLE sclerosis sufferer Lorraine Mansell says a care company is ‘disgusting’ after she was left without help.
The 56-year-old needs two carers to help her four times a day as her condition means she cannot walk or use her left arm.
The carers help her out of bed in the morning and make her breakfast, help at lunchtime, teatime, and get her to bed at 9pm,
But Mrs Mansell, of Harvard Close, Lee-on-the-Solent, said that company Apex Care – a private company contracted by Hampshire County Council – has let her down.
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What's the simplest way to get a non-technical person online?
Lynda wants to get her sister-in-law online, but she’s over 70, has no experience of modern technology, and lives on her own a long way away
My sister-in-law would like to be able to watch her grandchild grow up. She is over 70 and has no experience of modern technology, and lives on her own a long way from us. There is no friendly IT person nearby.
We know this is going to be difficult, but what would be the simplest forms of technology to buy for her to use? We were thinking of buying two smartphones, so we could help her as best we could by having the same phone. I also thought we could buy her a tablet so we could Skype and she could see photos in large format. We use a laptop and I have an old iPhone. Lynda
