Category Archives: Carers
Care wrangle has torn Sunderland couple apart after 65 years
They were childhood sweethearts – but a care wrangle has torn this Sunderland couple apart after 65 years
Florrie Graham, with a photograph of her wedding day in June 1946. She is apart from her husband Jos for the first time in 66 years.
INSEPERABLE throughout more than 65 years of marriage, an elderly couple have been left heartbroken after being forced to live apart after a wrangle over care funding.
War veteran Joseph Graham, 92, and his wife Florence, 90, are both devastated that she is not being allowed to move into the same care home as him, despite suffering from dementia.
The pair met as children growing up in the same Deptford street and later became teenage sweethearts.
The importance of social care to elderly people in Wales
Bill has the potential to ward off problems in the provision of social care
- by Julia McWatt, Western Mail
- Sep 10 2012
Amy Clifton outlines the importance of social care to elderly people in Wales
IT IS widely acknowledged that the existing arrangements for providing care in Wales are struggling under increasing pressure and a lack of resources.
Quality of services, eligibility criteria for care services and the amount that people pay for those services vary significantly across Wales.
In most local authorities today, people with low, moderate, and often substantial care needs do not receive any support from care authorities.
Unpaid carers – the majority of whom are aged over 50, currently provide 96% of care in communities across Wales.
Countywide carers support service to be set up in West Sussex
Countywide carers support service to be set up in West SussexWEST Sussex County Council is preparing to enhance its support services for people who provide care and support for an adult in their family.
It is advertising a three-year £1.4million contract for its direct access countywide service, available to all carers of adults, from April 1, 2013.
This will replace the current Carers Support Services Partnership, run by three local charities.
The service has helped carers to maintain their own health and wellbeing, in delivering short breaks for carers and in providing training and specialist advice to help carers develop their expertise in providing care to a loved one.
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