Category Archives: Older care
Social care shake up for thousands in Norfolk
Social care shake up for thousands in Norfolk
by DAN GRIMMER, Public affairs correspondent
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
2:04 PM
Thousands of elderly and disabled people are set for a huge social care shake-up within weeks, after councillors agreed a radical shift in how Norfolk’s vulnerable are looked after.
Members of Norfolk County Council’s controlling cabinet agreed yesterday to shift the authority away from running day centres.
The council will instead hand personal budgets to people who use those services so they can choose what to spend the money on.
There is a lack of trust today for the care of the elderly
Three in four of us don’t trust care homes to look after our relatives properly
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 8:29 AM on 8th August 2011
Three in four Britons plan to look after their elderly relatives themselves because they don’t trust homes to care for them properly.
Eight in ten would rather their quality of life be affected than that of their parents or grandparents, according to a poll of 2,000 men and women whose parents are beginning to struggle to live in their own houses.
Two-thirds of the women surveyed said they would feel they were letting a loved one down by putting them in a home.
If you want to look young then get a smile
Old On Purpose: A Positive Aging Revolution
By Kavan Peterson on July 22, 2011
Last week Dr. Bill Thomas was interviewed by a documentary crew working on a very special film.
Old On Purpose Trailer from David Carey on Vimeo.
We are living longer and a wave of Baby Boomers is approaching the shores of the “aged” demographic. We look on this part of life with tremendous personal fear and denial. Aging baby boomers fear being devalued and marginalized. Society tells us that this phase of life is a time of loss: loss of purpose, integrity and meaning leaving us to become a crippling burden on society and loved ones. But what if….?
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