Category Archives: Carers
Social care cap plans ‘need funding and timetable’
Campaign groups have also said they fear the plans will be shelved because of the cost.
7 July 2012 Last updated at 16:37
Critics say the government needs to provide further details on how it will fund a cap on social care costs and when it will be introduced.
This week ministers are set to agree in principle a cap on what people in England pay towards their own care.
But Labour says the plans are “meaningless” without more details and a timetable.
And Michelle Martin, director general of Age UK said the government’s plans were “not nearly enough”.
Dearth of training in dementia diagnosis
9 July, 2012 | By Steve Ford
Nurses must receive more education and training in identifying dementia
Nurses must receive more education and training in identifying dementia, if care is to improve in line with the increasing prevalence of the condition, according to a group of MPs.
People with dementia are currently facing “shocking variations” in the time it takes for them to receive a diagnosis, a report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia said last week.
Call this care? Government inspectors send hit squad into a care home
Call this care? Government inspectors send hit squad into a care home to rescue pensioners from abuse
- By Mirror.co.uk
- 8 Jul 2012 00:00
An investigation found that staff failed to give sick and disabled residents the medicine they needed and even left one pensioner lying naked in a wet bed for hours
Confused elderly patients were humiliated, restrained and neglected by staff at a care home.
Inspectors were so appalled by what they saw there they sent in their own team to take over. Existing managers were stood down and some staff were suspended.
An investigation found that staff failed to give sick and disabled residents the medicine they needed and even left one pensioner lying naked in a wet bed for hours.
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