Category Archives: Older care

Nottinghamshire county council to roll out telecare service

October 5, 2011   Carers, disability, Older care

Carers will receive alerts triggered by telecare users to a portable pager.

Local authority signs deal to deliver services to older and disabled people across the county

Nottinghamshire county council is to roll out telecare technology to provide support for older and disabled people in a deal arranged within a Buying Solutions framework.

The technology will link a range of sensors in a person’s home to a 24 hour monitoring centre. The sensors will include:

• Home safety sensors for smoke, carbon monoxide, flood and heat alarms.

• Property exit sensors, which can alert the monitoring centre if a person with dementia wanders away from their home at an inappropriate time.

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Crawley care home staff arrested

October 5, 2011   Carers, Older care

Crawley care home staff arrested over neglect

 Orchid View is operated by Southern Cross Healthcare

Two staff members at a West Sussex care home have been questioned by police about the mistreatment of residents.

The 54-year-old woman and 48-year-old man were arrested on suspicion of ill-treatment and neglect at Orchid View, in Copthorne, Crawley.

The pair were released on police bail until next month.

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Newport city council making better use of IT for social care

October 3, 2011   Carers, disability, Older care

Newport council plans cost-cutting social care reforms

South Wales council hopes to shave £11m off its social care bill through a programme of better contracting and use of I

Newport city council has launched a three year programme to reform its adult and children‘s social services and save nearly £11m.

Stewart Greenwell, director of social services at Newport, told Guardian Social Care Network that the programme is as much about modernising and improving services as saving money.

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