Category Archives: Multiple Sclerosis
Lack of care workers forces disabled woman into care home
Disabled woman forced to leave home due to lack of care workers
A disabled woman has been forced to leave her home because of a lack of care workers.
Kathleen Robertson, 60, had been able to live in her flat in Ellon with the help of staff from care-at-home providers, Raeburn Healthcare four times a week.
But when Raeburn announced they did not have enough staff to continue their support, Aberdeenshire Council social workers also said they could not find any workers to help her either.
Mrs Robertson, who has multiple sclerosis and is paralysed from the neck down, has been living on her own in a specially-modified flat for three years, but now she has had no choice but to lose her independence and move to nearby Auchtercrag Care Home.
Family unpaid carers need more help!
‘Government exploiting kindness of carers’
A man forced to give up his job to become a full time carer has today accused the Government of exploiting kindness.
Richard Burnside, 50, from Carrickfergus, Co Antrim, had to quit his well paid manufacturing job in 2007 when his wife’s multiple sclerosis condition deteriorated.
Mr Burnside, who now lives on the £58-a-week allowance topped up by £100 earned through a part-time hotel job, has called for carers’ benefits to be increased.
“£58-a-week – that is way below the minimum wage,” he said.
Hotel boss raising money for MS charity in memory of uncle
Hotel boss raising money for MS charity in memory of uncle
jpco/31/1/13 Katie Savage Manager of Langshott Manor promoting Afternoon tea (Pic by Jon Rigby)
A hotel manager has dedicated a year of fund raisers to a charity in memory of her uncle.
Katie Savage, 32, was appointed manager of Langshott Manor, in Ladbroke Road, Horley, last September and has taken the new year as an opportunity to make the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Society the hotel’s ‘charity of the year’.
This means every fund raising event that takes place at the hotel in 2013 will raise money for that charity.
Katie said the cause was very close to her heart. “My uncle suffered from the disease from the age of 28 and sadly passed away at the age of 44 leaving behind two young sons.”
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