A crisis in social care funding since the coalition government came to power has left many elderly people in
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A crisis in social care funding
Elderly struggling to cope with social care cuts
Annual budgets allocated to help the over-65s have fallen by £1.3bn since 2010, a cut of nearly a fifth
The chancellor, George Osborne, promised to provide an extra £2bn for councils to spend on help for older people. Photograph: Corbis
Carer charities benefit from the new Health lottery
THE HEALTH LOTTERY: £200K CHEQUES FACTOR
27th October 2011
By Ed Riley
FOUR charities were celebrating yesterday after pocketing nearly £200,000 in Health Lottery cash.
The payouts will help dementia sufferers, young carers and healthy living campaigns in Kent and Medway.
Findings on who uses the internet! Carers need the internet!
Social Media Usage in the UK – The Findings
by Jon Priestley
More than half UK pensioners now on Facebook
37.4 million UK adults use Facebook regularly
32.1 million UK adults use YouTube regularly
15.5 million UK adults on Twitter
7.9 million UK adults on LinkedIn
6.7 million UK adults on Flickr
There has been much talk in the press about how popular various social media platforms really are; how many people use Facebook in the UK? Does Twitter have more active accounts than Flickr? Is anyone over 40 interested in Foursquare? 
To remove any lingering doubt as to the popularity and importance of social media platforms, we conducted research with Your Say Pays, where we asked nearly 2,400 UK adults which social media platforms they used and how often.
We then analysed the results to bring what we believe is the most up-to-date snapshot of social media usage in the UK.
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