Category Archives: Older care
Leicester City Council seeks foster carers for elderly people
A fostering scheme where families will be paid to take elderly people into their homes is to be tried in Leicester.
Carers will be paid £224 a week and Leicester City Council will pay for modifications to their homes.
Age UK warned that potentially vulnerable people could be placed in homes with strangers.
But the council said carers would be vetted before being approved, and care would be closely monitored.
In October, the council confirmed plans to close or sell off eight of its care homes.
NHS care at home for elderly and disabled quietly slashed by a third
Huge pressure on family carers
The number of frail elderly and disabled people receiving care at home has been slashed by a third in just five years as councils have reined in spending because of pressure from budget cuts, a new study shows.
The squeeze in overall numbers receiving care in England comes at a time when the numbers of older people has been growing almost twice as fast as the general population.
New NHS drugs policy could see elderly denied treatment
Thursday 09 January 2014
New drugs will only be made available on the NHS if they help people deemed to be a benefit to society under proposals that prompted fears elderly people could be denied treatment.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) is due to change how it decides which drugs can be provided by the health service.
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