Author Archives: Maureen
Is system designed to fit care to users’ lives working in West Norfolk?
Margaret Howard, 60, who is a big supporter of the new “personal budget” social care funding system
Traditionally, people living in the community who were eligible for assistance from social services in their daily lives were assessed and then placed into the services on offer.
An elderly woman living alone might be told she could have a carer to come in and help her get washed in the morning as well as someone to deliver a hot meal to her in the evening.
Elderly ‘left hungry as care home tried to cut down on shopping bill
Frail elderly people were routinely left without food after their care home ran out of supplies because of an apparent attempt to “cut down the shopping bill”, an inspection has found.
By John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor
7:00AM BST 07 Jun 2012
Staff at Lyndhurst Lodge in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leics, told inspectors they had resorted to buying snacks for residents out of their own pockets because of shortages, the health watchdog the Care Quality Commission said.
The home was issued with a formal warning after a highly critical inspection report also found that it was so short-staffed that at times there were not even enough on hand to help frail people to the lavatory.
Evil teenager tortured man for his benefits
AARON TEASDALE … tortured a disabled man for his benefits.
By KARON KELLY
EVIL Aaron Teasdale is behind bars today after torturing a victim with learning difficulties.
Teasdale, 19, was locked up indefinitely after he and a 17-year-old female accomplice – who cannot be named for legal reasons – left the man in intensive care after being beaten, burnt and repeatedly shot in the head with a BB gun.
