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Lancashire care home abuses revealed
Lancashire care home abuses revealed
11:57am Monday 20th June 2011
Twenty-three carers across Lancashire have been dismissed or are under investigation for abusing and mistreating patients, it has been revealed.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed eight cases involving physical abuse, four concerning financial and emotional abuse and five cases of verbal abuse across Lancashire County Council’s 17 care homes over the past two years.
Carers Week round-up
Carers Week round-up
How social media is connecting carers
“Sandwich” carers John and Jean Pearson talk about their responsibilities
An estimated 6m people in the UK are carers – giving their own time to help support a friend or relative with a disability, illness or condition.
Volunteers to live life of the isolated elderly
Volunteers to live life of the isolated elderly
By Dominic Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News
A team of volunteers is about to begin an unusual experiment – for one week they will each be living a life cut off from the world around them.
There will be no conversations, no phones, no interactions with other people at all, with only the TV for company.
They’re trying to reproduce the experience of more than a million elderly people who live lonely and isolated lives.
And for one of the 10 volunteers, 23-year-old drama student Christie Vincett, it could be a long week.
