Category Archives: health
Paul Burstow MP speech at the Dementia workshop
Paul Burstow MP speech at the Dementia workshop.
Don’t cut Care
On 1st March at 10.30am West Sussex County Council Adults’ Services Select Committee will be meeting to discuss, amongst other things, changes to the eligibility criteria for social care.
People with learning difficulties speak out.
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Carers desperate that respite could be taken away
Carers desperate that respite could be taken away
By nadia stone nadia.stone@glosmedia.co.uk
DESPERATE carers who look after disabled children are devastated their only respite could be cruelly snatched away.
Tanya Cook cares for her 16-year-old son Jack who has a condition called tuberous sclerosis.
This means he has tumours in his brain, heart, eyes, and kidneys, as well as uncontrolled epilepsy and autism.
She has to help dress, shower and toilet him, as well as checking on him throughout the night because he frequently has seizures.
Herself unwell, the Quedgeley mum is “so exhausted” that she relies on The Meadows, in Dudbridge, Stroud, a home where Jack stays one night a week, to give her one night of rest each week.
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