Category Archives: dementia

Bleak outlook ahead because of the cuts to social care

May 8, 2013   Carers, dementia, disability, mental health, Older care, Social care

Extra investment ‘needed to make care cap work’

By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News

 Social-care budgets have already been squeezed in the past few years

The government’s commitment to reform social care will require greater investment, ministers have been told.

A bill limiting the cost to disabled and elderly people of their social care will form part of the government’s legislative programme for the next year, the Queen’s Speech revealed.

Previously ministers had proposed introducing a cap of £72,000 in 2016.

But campaigners and council chiefs told ministers budget cuts were already putting the system at risk.

Research by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) suggests the £16bn budget for social care, including services for both elderly and disabled people, is likely to be trimmed by £800m in the next 12 months.

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Real caring in Gloucestershire is important

May 7, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Importance of care for Gloucestershire’s 4,000 dementia sufferers

Monday, May 06, 2013

Gloucestershire Echo

By NICK WEBSTER

REMEMBERING to eat or how to brush your teeth are some of the more important things in life that dementia sufferers can forget.

There are 4,000 dementia sufferers in Gloucestershire, needing social care at home.

Roy Bell, 92, and his wife, Peggy, of Bishop’s Cleeve, both have mixed dementia to varying degrees.

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WEST NORFOLK: Dementia patient angry at cutbacks

May 5, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, ukcuts

Sunday 5 May 2013

WEST NORFOLK: Dementia patient angry at cutbacks

Published on 05/05/2013 13:00

A mental health patient has criticised planned cuts in dementia services as a money-saving operation.

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust announced two weeks ago that staff numbers in Dementia and Complexity in Later Life services in West and Central Norfolk would be cut from 178 to 137.

The redundancies were said to be part of a four-year strategy involving “huge and complex” changes including new local commissioning arrangements and financial restraints caused by the recession and public spending cuts.

A former patient of the Fermoy Unit in Lynn, James Cramp, 69, of Columbia Way, was concerned about job cuts at the Chatterton House dementia unit and the Fermoy Unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

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