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Disability charity makes last-ditch plea for support
Opportunities Through Technology secretary Brian Snaith in the busy classroom
12:00pm Wednesday 12th September 2012 in News
A CHARITY helping disabled people remain independent and in work will close within months if it cannot find funding.
Opportunities Through Technology (OTT), based at the Colchester Institute, introduces disabled people to computer equipment and software to help them live a life without the need for support.
But after losing a grant of £25,000 due to government cuts to funding the charity is struggling to keep its head above water, and will close before Christmas if more cash cannot be found.
Elderly rehab services ‘lacking’
By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News
Intermediate care involves mutli-skilled teams of physiotherapists, nurses and social-care staffThere is a lack of support and rehabilitation for elderly patients who need help recovering from falls and hospital care, a report suggests.
Such help is normally provided by joint teams of nurses, physiotherapists and social-care staff in England.
But the British Geriatrics Society audit estimated the services in place were meeting only half the demand.
The report warned the shortage was likely to cause delays in discharge from hospital and readmissions.
Care wrangle has torn Sunderland couple apart after 65 years
They were childhood sweethearts – but a care wrangle has torn this Sunderland couple apart after 65 years
Florrie Graham, with a photograph of her wedding day in June 1946. She is apart from her husband Jos for the first time in 66 years.
INSEPERABLE throughout more than 65 years of marriage, an elderly couple have been left heartbroken after being forced to live apart after a wrangle over care funding.
War veteran Joseph Graham, 92, and his wife Florence, 90, are both devastated that she is not being allowed to move into the same care home as him, despite suffering from dementia.
The pair met as children growing up in the same Deptford street and later became teenage sweethearts.
