Category Archives: health
Service says thank you to carers who give up their time for others
More than 100 people at the service
- Diane and Stuart Walton were in the congregation at yesterday’s service.
FOR Diane Walton, much of the past two decades have been spent looking after her seriously ill mum Pamela.
Together with her husband Stuart, Diane has been the main carer for her 90-year-old mum, who suffers with lung disease, allergies and has, in the past, had strokes.
Her devotion to caring for her mother is an act few people have witnessed but it was thrown under the spotlight yesterday in the Carers’ Service at Derby Cathedral.
The politics of self-interest in addressing elderly care
PUBLISHED: 20:36, 30 May 2012 | UPDATED: 21:43, 30 May 2012
The cost of looking after old people is almost going to double in the next 20 years, and the number of people who will have to bear the crushing burden of paying for their own care will more than double.
This is what we are told in a report backed by eminently able academic researchers and published by the Local Government Association, the umbrella body of local councils.
It is local councils, of course, which run the bureaucratic organisations currently known as adult social services which are responsible for dishing out the meals on wheels, the bathroom safety fittings, and the caring workers who help wash and dress the vulnerable elderly.
Paul Burstow announces £60 million of funding for hospices
Hospices will be able to apply for funding for a range of projects
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow has announced that hospices are to benefit from up to £60 million of funding to help improve the quality of care for people nearing the end of their lives. He has visited St Christopher’s Hospice in Sydenham today, to see the major refurbishments the hospice was able to carry out after receiving funding through the capital grants scheme.
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