Category Archives: Older care

Sunderland University helps raise the profile of unpaid carers

March 16, 2013   Carers, disability, Older care

Sunderland carers’ starring role in exhibition

Sunderland University helps raise the  profile of unpaid carers by hosting special photography exhibition

 
A carer
The breaks that carers take from their roles have been captured on camera and will be unveiled at a North East exhibition next week.

The exhibition, called Time Well Earned, will be displayed at Sunderland University’s Showcase Gallery in the Priestman Building, City Campus, between Tuesday and April 19.

The university has joined forces with the Sunderland Carers’ Centre to raise the profile of unpaid carers – people who look after family members or friends who have a long-term illness, a disability or who are elderly and frail.

Many carers juggle care with employment and the level of care they give can exceed a full-time job.

The photographs show carers taking well-deserved breaks from their caring roles, and the idea for the project came from Daniel Dale, who is studying a photography degree.

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Old age should not be approached with horror

March 14, 2013   Carers, Older care

Old age should not be approached with horror

A new report provides a passport for older life that does not treat over-60s as liabilities

Elderly people sign

Ageing is no longer an orderly chronological process; anarchy rules. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

Ageing is a strange and foreign country described mostly in negative terms in guide books for those whom, much to their surprise, find themselves lost in its hinterland, often unsuitably dressed and without a compass. A youth-obsessed society that makes a mint from mining the alleged horrors of growing older – all sag and no sagacity – has locked us into a set of taboos that means millions of us are moving from middle age into possibly decades of allegedly unproductive, dependent, parked-up old age without sufficient armament or attitude of mind to challenge prevailing prejudices. Except that today we may literally have been thrown the semblance of a lifeline.

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Helping older people to get on the internet

March 12, 2013   internet, Older care

Laptop scheme to get older people online

2:49pm Monday 11th March 2013 in News By Journal Reporter

OLDER people are being helped to get online through a scheme to provide low cost, refurbished laptops.

Wiltshire Council and Age UK Salisbury District are working in partnership to refurbish the council’s old laptops and sell them for £50 to those who need them most, with the cost covering the work done on them.

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