Category Archives: Carers
Great grandmother, 100, died ‘because of carers’ poor English’
A 100-year-old woman died from a fractured skull after falling from a sling because there was a “language barrier” with her foreign nurses, an inquest heard.
By Hayley Dixon
3:51PM GMT 09 Jan 2013
Great-grandmother May Lavinia Ward was “full of life” until she fell a metre and a half from a bucket sling as she was moved from a chair to a bed, fracturing her skull, and hip and breaking her knee.
Carers Shasha Wei, from China, and Rumyana Ivanova, from Bulgaria, put the bloodied dementia patient back to bed for forty minutes after she had jerked forward onto the floor when one of them let her go.
Her agitation may have been caused because she couldn’t understand them, Hertfordshire Coroners Court heard today.
They had even changed her clothes but eventually a nurse at Meppershall Care Home, Bedfordshire, was informed and paramedics rushed to the scene to find Mrs Ward, who had a broken leg and swollen eye, vomiting dark blood.
52,000 Shropshire people provide unpaid care
More than 52,000 people in Shropshire are providing unpaid care to their relatives in Shropshire, new figures revealed today.
The number has shot up by 14 per cent in the past decade, and experts say it will continue to rise as people live longer. The figure shows how many people are giving up their time to provide free care to disabled, sick or elderly relatives in the county, up from 45,000 in 2001.
The figures have been revealed in the information collected in the 2011 census, with the county’s number of carers increasing faster than the national average.
There are 34,260 carers in the wider Shropshire area, with an additional 17,944 in Telford & Wrekin.
There has also been a 32 per cent increase in the number of people across Shropshire providing more than 50 hours of care per week, with more than 12,300 people in this position at the date of the 2011 census.
Film premiere highlights extra support for Torbay carers
Help for families supporting an older person suffering from depression, anxiety or psychosis.
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Carers, patients and healthcare staff from across Torbay and Southern Devon recently came together to celebrate the launch of a new educational film to help families supporting an older person suffering from depression, anxiety or psychosis.
- Funded and produced in collaboration between Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust’s Torbay Carers Services and Devon Partnership NHS Trust, the film is the third in a series of DVDs aimed at supporting unpaid carers.
Caring for an Older Person with Depression, Anxiety or Psychosis follows on from two highly successful films about dementia. The films share the experience of living with, and caring for, someone with mental ill health and explore the ways in which people learn to cope with the challenges involved.
This latest film features four couples who have lived with depression, anxiety or a psychotic illness. They openly discuss what happened to them, the effect of their illness on their daily lives and relationships and how they have come through their struggles with ill health. Carers talk about the effect on the person with the illness and on themselves.
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