Category Archives: Older care
Call this care? Government inspectors send hit squad into a care home
Call this care? Government inspectors send hit squad into a care home to rescue pensioners from abuse
- By Mirror.co.uk
- 8 Jul 2012 00:00
An investigation found that staff failed to give sick and disabled residents the medicine they needed and even left one pensioner lying naked in a wet bed for hours
Confused elderly patients were humiliated, restrained and neglected by staff at a care home.
Inspectors were so appalled by what they saw there they sent in their own team to take over. Existing managers were stood down and some staff were suspended.
An investigation found that staff failed to give sick and disabled residents the medicine they needed and even left one pensioner lying naked in a wet bed for hours.
Decision on social care funding in England facing delay
The government is to agree in principle to cap the amount elderly and disabled people in England pay towards the cost of social care, when it publishes plans on the issue next week.
But there will be no final agreement on how to fund the changes, and a decision will not be made until the spending review expected late next year.
Labour said talks to try to secure a cross-party consensus had broken down.
The health secretary said ministers were committed to continuing talks.
Last July, a review chaired by economist Andrew Dilnot put forward a raft of ideas for changes to adult social care funding in England.
The most notable of these was a £35,000 cap on what people should pay before they get help from the state.
When I’m 65 season
In with the old: BBC One addresses its older viewers with the When I’m 65 season
When I’m 65, a new season of BBC One documentaries, examines the very real concerns facing our ageing population. Benji Wilson finds out more.
By Benji Wilson
1:31PM BST 03 Jul 2012
It is estimated that by 2030 a quarter of the population will be over 65. By 2083, it will be one in three. A quarter of all children born today will live to see their 100th birthday. Those numbers mean that the elderly cannot continue to be invisible. In fact they will hardly be elderly at all in the word’s current sense – they will be richer, more active, more relevant and more numerous than ever before.
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