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Cancer patient loses benefits after DWP lists her as dead.
Friday 2 November 2012
KING’S LYNN: Cancer patient loses benefits after DWP lists her as dead.
Eileen Callaby is angry that her benefits were stopped after the DWP thought she was dead.
Weeks after surviving a cancer operation, a patient received a letter stating that her benefits had been cancelled as she had died.
Eileen Callaby says her recovery from lung cancer is being hampered due to the financial worry created by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stopping her benefits after mistakenly listing her as dead.
Mrs Callaby , 52, who lives with her son Peter in Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Gaywood, even had to visit Lynn Job Centre on Monday with her birth certificate to prove that she is alive.
She is waiting for to start chemotherapy after having sections of her lung removed in September.
Mrs Callaby is calling for improvements in the DWP after section failed to communicate with another that she was alive.
She said: “I don’t understand where it came from that I had died.
Elderly people ‘staying at home for fear of falling’
Elderly people ‘staying at home for fear of falling’
A third of adults over 65 will suffer a fall each year, but falls are not inevitable, says Age UKA fear of falling is making many elderly people prisoners in their own homes, a survey has suggested.
More than one in five of the 500 people aged 75 and older, interviewed by the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service charity, lived in fear of falling.
And 5% are so fearful that they will not leave their homes unaccompanied, the report found.
PEOPLE with dementia will soon be able to benefit from a state of the art facility.
Aldeburgh Community Hospital
Aldeburgh: New facility set to open at community hospital for people with dementia
By Craig Robinson Monday, October 29, 2012
10:00 AM
PEOPLE with dementia will soon be able to benefit from a state of the art facility.
A new multi sensory room will be opened at Aldeburgh Community Hospital tomorrow.
The facility can be used in a variety of ways but will initially help people who have dementia, especially those using the hospital’s day centre.
