Category Archives: Older care
Vote of thanks for the carers
MORE than a dozen Oxfordshire care home staff have been recognised for their dedication at an awards ceremony.
By Emma Harrison, Reporter covering Rose Hill, Littlemore and Iffley. Contact me on 01865 425430
MORE than a dozen Oxfordshire care home staff have been recognised for their dedication at an awards ceremony.
Lisa Khan, head of care at Longlands care home in Blackbird Leys, was among those honoured at The Orders of St John Care Trust’s 2012 Oxfordshire Staff Awards.
The trust is a not for profit charitable organisation, with 72 care homes across four counties, including 18 in Oxfordshire along with others in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire.
Ms Khan, 34, is on a six-month secondment from her role at Abingdon’s Old Station House.
She was nominated by her colleagues in Abingdon and won the leader of the year award.
Ms Khan, who collected her award at the ceremony at The King’s Centre in Osney Mead last month, said: “It was a wonderful achievement, I started in the trust about six years ago as a carer and worked my way up the ranks.
Care home elderly forced to pay £17 to get toe nails cut
Elderly residents in a number of Sheffield care homes are being forced to pay up to £17 to have their toe nails cut.
Story submitted by: Gael Stigant
Submitted by: Gael Stigant
‘Significant’ numbers of old people face a waiting list of more than four months to get basic foot care from the NHS, meaning they have no choice but to fork out for a private podiatrist.
A lack of trained members of care home staff, and a shortage of training spaces, worsens the problem.
A report by Sheffield Local Involvement Network (LINk), which was written following an investigation by its Care Homes for Older People Action sub-group, stated: “Significant numbers of older people are paying for private chiropody services at prices varying from £5 to £17 per session.
“It is difficult to know for certain what type of foot care they are paying for but we know that many of these contacts are for toe nail cutting only.
Elderly people ‘staying at home for fear of falling’
Elderly people ‘staying at home for fear of falling’
A third of adults over 65 will suffer a fall each year, but falls are not inevitable, says Age UKA fear of falling is making many elderly people prisoners in their own homes, a survey has suggested.
More than one in five of the 500 people aged 75 and older, interviewed by the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service charity, lived in fear of falling.
And 5% are so fearful that they will not leave their homes unaccompanied, the report found.
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