Category Archives: Carers
Safeguarding adults: how do we protect the most vulnerable?
All staff, from cleaners to chief executives, should know how to raise concerns over abuse and ensure they are listened to
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Keith Brown
- Guardian Professional,
While there is a sense of some justice that carers from the notorious Winterbourne View hospital are now in jail, there is still one terrible tragedy that remains unaddressed.
How could there be so many people working in the hospital who did not raise the alarm? Moreover, how does a culture like that start in a hospital or care setting in the first place and who is looking at the leadership model that allow it to happen?
Today, Bournemouth University is hosting a conference on safeguarding adults. We were told that those working in social care no longer have time for conferences but had hoped 200 people might attend. Instead, we closed the list at 300 people and have another 70 on a waiting list.
”I have dementia, but I still have a life to live”
”I have dementia, but I still have a life to live”
15 November 2012
How to respond to the growing challenge of dementia with patchy levels of diagnosis, care and support were among the issues discussed at Public Service Events’ Dementia, a National Crisis conference in Manchester. Caroline Pennington reports
October saw the new Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promise that NHS dementia care in England would be the best in the world by 2015. A week prior to this bold affirmation the mood on the challenge of dementia at the Manchester conference centre was one of hesitant optimism gritted with realism.
Andrew Chidgey, director of external affairs at the Alzheimer’s Society, reminded delegates of the pervasive nature of the illness. “It is the personal experience of people living with dementia, their carers and families, which people are finding very difficult,” he said. “People are being diagnosed late, or not at all. People often are not getting the care and support – at the right time – that they need.”
Lonely elderly ‘don’t want to impose’ on busy neighbours, study finds
ALMOST a million older people in Britain do not know even their closest neighbours because they do not want to get in the way, a study of attitudes to loneliness shows.
By John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor
7:00AM GMT 15 Nov 2012
The most common reasons given by elderly people for not getting to know those living close to them was that younger neighbours “always seem to be so busy” or that they did not wish to be a burden.
Overall about 3.5 million people over 65 get no help, support or companionship from those living nearest to them, research carried out for the charity Age UK found.
The findings were published as the charity launched of a campaign to promote neighbourliness between generations ahead of the winter.
It wants to see the “Great British spirit” demonstrated during the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee celebrations translated into practical help for older people this winter.
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