Funding for the long-term care of elderly people should be targeted at the poorest pensioners with few or no assets, according to a report by Iain Duncan Smith‘s thinktank.
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The elderly and disabled cannot afford to wait
Every week brings more evidence of the growing crisis in care for older and disabled people.
By Liz Kendall MP, Shadow Minister for Care and Older People
7:00AM BST 08 May 2012
Appalling cases of abuse or neglect in hospitals and care homes have rightly hit the headlines. However, there is also a hidden care crisis affecting thousands of families across the country.
Many struggle to find the help they need when a loved one becomes ill or frail. Some elderly people end up with only 15 minute home visits to get them up, washed, dressed and fed.
Elderly care funding should focus on poorest, says Duncan Smith thinktank
Report by Centre for Social Justice calls for resources to be concentrated on pensioners with few or no assets
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Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
- guardian.co.uk,
Iain Duncan Smith’s thinktank, the Centre for Social Justice, says low pay, poor training and lack of oversight has to led to ‘very poor quality of home care for the most disadvantaged older people’. Photograph: Geoff Newton
Council boss ‘appalled’ after elderly woman left on bus overnight
How could this have happened
MISSING: The woman should have been returned to Jill Jenkins Court
THE chief executive of Luton Borough Council has described an incident in which an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s was left locked in a minbus overnight as “appalling”.
Trevor Holden said the council deeply regretted the distress caused to the woman and her family, adding: “We are deeply shocked that something has gone so seriously wrong.”
The woman, who is in her 80s, was left on the council minibus at the Kingsway depot on Monday night at 5.30pm, and was not discovered until 7am the following morning.
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