Category Archives: Older care
New £55m centre in Stirling for elderly care agreed
Plans have been unveiled to “transform” the way elderly people in the Forth Valley are cared for.
Stirling Council said it planned to develop a care “village” which brought together social, health and GP services on the same site.
NHS Forth Valley are also involved in the project, which could cost £55m.
Care home residents moved out of home for their safety
Residents of a Lowestoft care home moved out because of state of cleanliness of their rooms
Friday, March 2, 2012
1:39 PM
Residents of a Lowestoft care home were moved out yesterday evening because of the state of the cleanliness of residents’s rooms.
The 15 residents of Orme House Residential Care Home have been relocated to other homes in the area by Suffolk County Council.
The move came after an inspection by environmental health officers by Waveney District Council.
The officers had visited the building after someone contacted the district council over concerns over health and safety issues linked to wiring and electrical equipment.
Phil Harris, district council spokesman said; “However on entering environmental health officers realised there were far greater concerns environmental health concerns.
Elderly care should be better regulated, says nursing leader
Unskilled health care assistants are caring for the elderly in a system that has failed to adjust to ageing patients, according to the chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing.
8:20AM GMT 29 Feb 2012
Dr Peter Carter called for an overhaul of care services in which older people are looked after by health care assistants who have not had specialist training.
He said elderly patients were as dependent as children but their needs were not reflected in the ratio of nurses to patients.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Dr Carter said: “In children’s nursing, the ratio of registered nurses to children is one to four. In elderly nursing, it is one to 10.
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