Category Archives: Older care
Carers are often “invisible” despite the fact that their work is difficult
Carers ‘need to look after themselves too’
Healthcare News
14/09/2011
One expert has warned that the deteriorating health of a carer could negatively impact on the individual they are looking after.
Family carers who look after their relatives so they do not have to find a care home should remember to take care of themselves, according to one author.
Rosie Staal, author of What Shall We Do With Mother? How to Manage When Your Elderly Parent is Dependent On You, said that if a carer is in bad health, this can have a negative impact on the individual they are looking after.
Elderly carers ‘need more support from GPs’
12 September 2011 Last updated at 00:06
There are thought to be six million carers in the UK. Many of them are over retirement age.
By Jane Dreaper Health correspondent, BBC News
The Princess Royal Trust for Carers says family doctors should offer older carers an annual health check, including screening for depression.
The charity says almost 70% of hundreds of older carers questioned in a survey said that their health was suffering because of their responsibilities.
Knutsford council are ignoring “the needs of the ill or disabled or their exhausted and impoverished carers
Austerity begins at home: Cuts bite among Chancellor’s constituents
He said we’re all in it together – but few believed him. Now George Osborne faces anger in his back yard, as his economic ‘Plan A’ takes its toll. Paul Vallely reports
Saturday, 10 September 2011
We’ve never had so many members of the public come to a meeting, said the bewildered Conservative leader of Cheshire East County Council, Wesley Fitzgerald, at the start of its cabinet meeting this week. It was so packed that they had to move the councillors’ seating to accommodate the public.
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