Category Archives: Older care
New bid to tackle the thousands in fuel poverty in Norfolk
A task force of county councillors are looking at how to stop vulnerable people having to choose between eating or heating. Photo credit: Help the aged/PA.
Dan Grimmer Monday, January 6, 2014
6:30 AM
Together, we can do more to stop people in Norfolk from having to choose between heating and eating – that is the message from a task force set up to investigate the scale of the problem in the county.
Surviving Winter
Norfolk’s Surviving Winter appeal has smashed through the £25,000 barrier. But requests are still coming in faster than donations, as some of our neediest elderly people feel the chill.
Norfolk Community Foundation last month issued a fresh call to those who may not need their winter fuel payments to pass the money on to those who do.
Surviving Winter, backed by the EDP, has been a lifeline for hundreds of Norfolk’s neediest households, giving grants towards the cost of fuel.
There are three ways you can give to the appeal:
Tuesday 31 December 2013Elderly want home care but don’t discuss needs
Pensioners end up going into care homes or hospitals because they leave decisions on their long term care until they are facing a crisis situation, experts say
The over 50s find it easier to talk about money and funeral plans than where they want to be looked after in their old age, a study has found.
This is because there is a lack of understanding of the options available, experts say, which means decisions only take place when the situation reaches crisis point.
More than half of the UK’s over 50s have had to organise care for a relative, but a third of them never even asked what their loved one wanted.
Of more than 11,700 people questioned, 87 per cent would prefer to be cared for in their own homes if the need arose, while less than one in ten, 8 per cent, would want to go into a residential care.
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