Category Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
Paid carers are not fulfilling their responsibilities
Plan Care scandal: Couple’s 102 different carers in just 11 months
A COUPLE who have had more than 100 different carers since the beginning of the year have spoken out at their dismay with Plan Care’s ‘abominable’ service.
Patricia Reed, 78, of Weston Turville suffers from advanced multiple sclerosis combined with bowel complications and has been wheelchair bound for 32 years.
She therefore requires two carers to visit her home, four times a day, to tend to her needs such as being lifted out of bed and given help in dressing.
Holiday breaks for people with MS and their carers
Two charities are working together to provide subsidised respite breaks for people with multiple sclerosis in Chigwell, Southampton, and Southport.
Disability charity Vitalise and the MS Society have joined forces to provide the breaks at Vitalise’s three accessible holiday centres, Jubilee Lodge in Chigwell, Netley Waterside House, in Southampton, and Sandpipers, in Southport.
Help carers to better look after their own health, GPs advised
An estimated 1.2 million carers spend over 50 hours a week caring for others
Caroline White
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
GPs need to take a more proactive approach with patients who are carers, because they are at increased risk of psychological and physical ill health, says the Royal College of General Practitioners.
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