Category Archives: Older care

Dementia sufferer from Esher gets £7,000 refund on burglar alarm

November 17, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, Older care

10:00am Saturday 17th November 2012

Beware of Cold Callers

An elderly dementia sufferer from Esher was hailed in National Consumer Week, after a refund of more than £7,000 from traders who sold her a ‘free’ burglar alarm.

Nesta Hollis, 77, was recovering from two strokes when she was approached by cold-callers at her door, selling what turned out to be a 15-year servicing and monitoring contract costing thousands.

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Most elderly ‘never use internet’

November 16, 2012   Carers, disability, internet, Older care

Most older people in the UK and many of those who are disabled have never used the internet, a study has shown.

Only 30% of adults aged 75 years and over had ever used the internet, the latest quarterly release about internet use by adults found.

There were 3.24 million non-users aged 75 years and over, said the Office for National Statistics.

The elderly non-users also made up 43% of the 7.63 million people who had never used the internet. Within the demographic, elderly women were also much less likely to go online than their male counterparts.

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Lonely elderly ‘don’t want to impose’ on busy neighbours, study finds

November 15, 2012   Carers, Older care

ALMOST a million older people in Britain do not know even their closest neighbours because they do not want to get in the way, a study of attitudes to loneliness shows.

By , Social Affairs Editor

7:00AM GMT 15 Nov 2012

The most common reasons given by elderly people for not getting to know those living close to them was that younger neighbours “always seem to be so busy” or that they did not wish to be a burden.

Overall about 3.5 million people over 65 get no help, support or companionship from those living nearest to them, research carried out for the charity Age UK found.

The findings were published as the charity launched of a campaign to promote neighbourliness between generations ahead of the winter.

It wants to see the “Great British spirit” demonstrated during the Olympics and Diamond Jubilee celebrations translated into practical help for older people this winter.

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