Category Archives: Older care
New laws announced to end age discrimination in hospitals
11:30am Sunday 24th June 2012 in News
Sutton and Cheam MP Paul Burstow has announced new laws aimed at ending age discrimination in hospitals.
Mr Burstow wants to ensure elderly people no longer face age discrimination when they need medical treatment.
The ban will mean older patients who feel they are receiving poor or undignified care due to their age, could take legal action from October.
Doctors will continue to make the final decision on treatment, but it will be illegal for the elderly to be denied treatment on age grounds alone.
Care home whistleblowers increasing
More than 4,300 whistleblowers have come forward in the past 16 months to complain about the treatment of elderly and disabled people in care.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) – which regulates care homes and hospitals in England – said some of the complaints concerned care home residents being physically assaulted.
Complaints rose from 22 a month in December 2010 to 556 in March 2012.
The CQC said whistleblowers included relatives and staff.
Paid Carers putting patients to bed early to save money
ELDERLY and disabled people are being put to bed early in a bid to save cash, the Daily Echo can reveal.
11:40am Thursday 21st June 2012 in News By Rachel Masker
And one Winchester pensioner has now complained his human rights are being neglected as he has been left in bed for 15 hours per day.
Some have received visits from home helps and been fed, washed and put to bed as early as 5pm.
Many others are in bed by 8pm because of a shortage of carers.
Yesterday the Daily Echo highlighted how Hampshire County Council and Southampton City Council commission just 15 minutes of care for some frail pensioners still living at home.
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