Category Archives: Carers
The Norfolk Hospice recognises importance of supporting carers
The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House recognises importance of supporting carers
By DAVID BLACKMORE Saturday, September 22, 2012
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The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House yesterday launched an appeal to raise £750,000 to improve palliative care services in the county. In the second of our five-part series, the EDP spoke to two carers who benefit from the charity’s practical and emotional support.
Caring for her husband is a 24/7 job for Doreen Hannant so any offer of a respite – no matter how small – is one she grabs with both hands.
Her husband John was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease six years ago and last year was also diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
They save the NHS thousands of pounds each year, but unpaid carers say they are being treated like ‘second-class citizens’
“All carers, no matter how distressed, are treated sensitively, with empathy and respect”.
Published: 21 September, 2012
by PETER GRUNER
THE borough’s heroic army of unpaid carers is suffering massive levels of stress and distress because of Islington Council’s red tape, bureaucracy and lack of co-ordination, according to a devastating report to the Town Hall this week.
Harrowing evidence of carers, many of them elderly and struggling single-handedly to cope with disabled or mentally ill dependents, is included in a shocking 30-page review of services by Islington Council’s health scrutiny committee.
The carers accused council staff of being “insensitive” and often “brusque, rude and hostile”.
Local MP calls for assistance for pensioner carers
North Ayrshire and Arran MP Katy Clark has called for carers’ allowance to be paid to pensioners.
Sep 21 2012 by Ross Dunn, Irvine Herald
The MP tabled an Early Day Motion in Parliament, calling for pensioners to be paid a carers’ allowance.
Carers allowance is currently withdrawn from carers once they’re eligible for state pension, with some pensioners qualifying for additional support, depending on financial circumstances.
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