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Health Lottery funding for Admiral Nurses
Dementia UK is delighted to have received Health Lottery funding, raised by local Health Lottery partners and players, to establish eleven new Admiral Nurse posts across England.
This crucial funding will allow us to establish Admiral Nurse posts in new localities as well as enabling us to expand our reach in areas where there are already Admiral Nurse services.
Working with local partners, these newly funded Admiral Nurses will help support more families affected by dementia and share best practice with local health and social care professionals to improve dementia care.
We are now in the process of setting up these new Admiral Nurse services with local partners in the following areas:
- Kent and Medway: in partnership with Avante Partnership
- North Yorkshire/ York
- Taunton: in partnership with the Royal British Legion
The politics of self-interest in addressing elderly care
PUBLISHED: 20:36, 30 May 2012 | UPDATED: 21:43, 30 May 2012
The cost of looking after old people is almost going to double in the next 20 years, and the number of people who will have to bear the crushing burden of paying for their own care will more than double.
This is what we are told in a report backed by eminently able academic researchers and published by the Local Government Association, the umbrella body of local councils.
It is local councils, of course, which run the bureaucratic organisations currently known as adult social services which are responsible for dishing out the meals on wheels, the bathroom safety fittings, and the caring workers who help wash and dress the vulnerable elderly.
Can technology help us to support the ageing population?
How we care for our older relatives and neighbours could be the greatest challenge facing society
Alex Smith
Guardian Professional, Wednesday 30 May 2012 08.30 BST
Over the coming decades, older people face a perfect storm. They will reach retirement age when people are living longer than ever, pensions are in crisis and national government and local authorities are facing unprecedented spending cuts. Serious medical conditions, and the socio-economic challenges resulting from ageing, are on the rise – with dementia causing particular distress to many older people and their families, and isolation proving a persistent curse.
This crisis will only deepen over time. Tax revenues continue to diminish and state-led solutions, which for the past 70 years have provided comfort, dignity and care for people in old age, are not going to provide all the answers in future, no matter which political party is in power.
