Category Archives: Older care

Care of older people in their homes is so poor

June 20, 2011 Carers, Older care

Older people cared for at home ‘lacking basic rights’

The report highlighted “major problems” in the home care system

Care of older people in their homes is so poor their human rights are being overlooked, an inquiry by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has found.

The inquiry is investigating how well over-65s who receive homecare visits are looked after in England.

The commission says it has uncovered worrying cases of neglect and examples of lack of respect for older people’s privacy and dignity.

Its full report will be published in November.

Volunteers to live life of the isolated elderly

June 19, 2011 Carers, Older care

Volunteers to live life of the isolated elderly

By Dominic Hughes Health correspondent, BBC News

A team of volunteers is about to begin an unusual experiment – for one week they will each be living a life cut off from the world around them.

There will be no conversations, no phones, no interactions with other people at all, with only the TV for company.

They’re trying to reproduce the experience of more than a million elderly people who live lonely and isolated lives.

And for one of the 10 volunteers, 23-year-old drama student Christie Vincett, it could be a long week.