Category Archives: Older care
Soaring toll of elderly starving in their homes
The number of people hospitalised because they are malnourished has soared by 50 per cent in five years
PUBLISHED: 00:49, 28 May 2012 | UPDATED: 00:49, 28 May 2012
Ten patients a week end up in hospital, half of them aged over 60.
Critics say the latest figures show care services are failing to ensure pensioners get the help they need. More councils are increasing fees for meals on wheels or denying people access to the service altogether.
No help for the aged: Home carers axed for our old and most vulnerable
Elderly people are suffering as £1billion is slashed from councils
For our most vulnerable pensioners, home care visits are the lifeline that allows them to live with dignity.
But the Sunday Mirror can today reveal they have become the latest service to fall victim to the Government’s funding axe.
A fresh wave of cuts has led to the price of having a carer visit a sick or elderly person soaring by 10 per cent.
Carers help the sick, frail and elderly get up in the morning, get washed, dressed and fed. They also lend a hand with household chores and shopping.
Outrage as pensioner sees care home fees doubling to £125,000 a year
Sandford Station retirement village is charging a 76-year-old resident £125,000 a YEAR in fees
PUBLISHED: 11:48, 23 May 2012 | UPDATED: 11:59, 23 May 2012
Rocketing costs: Jacquie Heal, 44, from Bristol with the paperwork from the care home Sherwood Lodge where her mother is a resident
The family of a pensioner are furious after her care home fees were more than doubled to a staggering £125,000 a year.
Pamela Watts, 76, is currently paying £3,543 a month out of her savings to live at a care home in Sandford Station Retirement Village in Somerset.
But her fees are now being increased to £10,355 per month, of which the Government contributes just £432.
The home, run by the St Monica Trust, says Mrs Watts’ fees have increased because of her complex and challenging needs.
She has been given until July to decide whether to pay the increased fees – or move out.
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