Author Archives: Maureen
Disabled person’s care cash stopped after Council declared them dead !
A disabled Norfolk person had their care cash stopped after a council official incorrectly recorded them as being dead.
Richard Wheeler Friday, July 6, 2012
6:30 AM
A disabled Norfolk person had their care cash stopped after a council official incorrectly recorded them as being dead.
The individual also had their blue badge disabled parking pass cancelled after the error, which has forced Norfolk County Council to review how it notes deaths of patients.
Care staff are due to be issued with new instructions telling them to making sure they write down who tells them of a person’s death and how it happened. The culprit for the initial error has not been found.
When I’m 65 season
In with the old: BBC One addresses its older viewers with the When I’m 65 season
When I’m 65, a new season of BBC One documentaries, examines the very real concerns facing our ageing population. Benji Wilson finds out more.
By Benji Wilson
1:31PM BST 03 Jul 2012
It is estimated that by 2030 a quarter of the population will be over 65. By 2083, it will be one in three. A quarter of all children born today will live to see their 100th birthday. Those numbers mean that the elderly cannot continue to be invisible. In fact they will hardly be elderly at all in the word’s current sense – they will be richer, more active, more relevant and more numerous than ever before.
Man bids for motor neurone disease awareness
“MND is a rapidly progressing disease which destroys the lives of the patients as well as the whole family.
By Angela Brooks
July 03, 2012
A TERMINALLY ill man is fighting back and campaigning to raise awareness of his condition, starting with his home town of Horley.
Liam Dwyer, 48, of Balcombe Road, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2005 after going to see a doctor about minor pain in his knee.
Now unable to walk, he is on a mission to raise the profile of a disease which kills five people every day in the UK.
Mr Dwyer, who has been with his wife Anna for 25 years and has an 18-year-old son, said: “I feel I am on borrowed time at the moment. Nine people [who] I have met since I was diagnosed, all diagnosed after me, have died.
“The doctors can’t tell me how long I will live now. I could be just a cold away from dying.”
