I’m wondering if we couldn’t bring in our young people to do something for our oldies. Here are two pretty well complementary problems: there are too many young people who haven’t got jobs, and too many old people who have problems they can’t solve. With, for example, their computers; with their piles of junk; with their ceiling light bulbs and jammed doors and incomprehensible benefit forms and TV sets that have refused to go digital and… I could go on.
Category Archives: Older care
Help the aged and Carers
Matching young people without jobs and old people who need help is surely one for The Apprentice?
Help at hand: what the elderly need is someone who can do those tricky little jobs. Photograph: Rex
State must pay family carers to look after elderly, say MPs
Families should be given state funding to care for their elderly relatives at home, a group of Conservative MPs has said.
Under the Government’s existing policies, councils are responsible for ensuring that local residents who need care are allocated “personal budgets”
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
7:00AM BST 02 May 2012
The current system means it is cheaper for families to put relations in the hands of local council-run care services, according to a report from the Free Enterprise Group.
The organisation said the Government could save an estimated £1.14 billion a year by funding families directly. Chris Skidmore, the MP for Kingswood, who wrote the report, said: “Where a local authority might otherwise be paying several hundred pounds a week for residential care, they could instead be offering a fraction of that to a relative to provide care themselves.”
Musician Rick Wakeman opens Age UK fayre in Diss for the elderly and their carers
“It’s crucial local parishes and local communities and local towns support events like this.”
By REBECCA GOUGH Saturday, April 28, 2012
11:28 AM
Amanda Palmer, Jen Cranshaw and Judith Head from the Denny Centre, with Rick Wakeman
No amount of wet weather could dampen the spirits of visitors to an annual spring fayre in aid of the elderly this morning (Saturday), opened by former rock-star Rick Wakeman.
With traditional events such as guess the weight of the cake, bric-a-brac stalls and a raffle, organisers hoped to raise as much money as possible for Age UK.
And they were not disappointed with visitors flocking to the event in Diss, as Mr Wakeman cut the ribbon.
The musician, 63, perhaps best known as keyboard player with the band Yes, who now lives with his wife in Scole, near Diss, said it was important to support local fundraisers.
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