Author Archives: Maureen
‘Christmas to remember’ campaign aims to raise awareness of dementia
‘Christmas to remember’ campaign aims to raise awareness of dementia
The ‘Christmas to remember’ campaign was launched by actress Carey Mulligan and the Prime Minister at Downing Street this morning. It is a joint digital campaign from Number 10, Department of Health and Alzheimer’s Society. It aims to raise awareness of dementia and encourage people to take appropriate action if they spot signs of the condition in family or friends over the festive season.
Happy International Day for People with Disabilities or Is It?
DWP will have an announcement today on International Disabled Peoples Day on how they are now going to “Improve disabled peoples chances of getting work by mandatory employment” sounds good eh well let me tell you it’s not. I mean can you just imagine having a mental health problem s where you suffer from bipolar and borderline personality disorder, which in fact means that the majority of days you can’t go out of the house or even talk to people as your stress levels are through the roof you can read more about bipolar here http://www.bipolaruk.org.uk/
Adult social care suffering under cuts, survey suggests
2 December 2012 Last updated at 06:10
Adult social care suffering under cuts, survey suggests
Care for vulnerable older people has been suffering – both in quality and quantity – because of funding cuts, a survey of 200 social workers suggests.
In the survey by Age UK and the College of Social Work, more than 85% of respondents said they had seen the impact of cuts in the past year.
Of those, 95% said the cuts in England presented “a risk to the dignity of their older clients”.
The Department for Health says the care of older people is a priority.
Councils across the country have been facing a funding squeeze under the coalition’s spending cuts.
