Category Archives: Scotland
Carers express concerns over new policy of ‘self-directed care’
8 May 2012 17:16 BST
Care providers from the public, private and voluntary sectors have all expressed “anxiety” about a “seismic shift” in the provision of care for vulnerable people, MSPs have heard.
New legislation could allow disabled people to buy their own alternatives to council-run social care.
However, Holyrood’s Health Committee on Tuesday heard concerns raised by some nurses as well as private and voluntary care providers who may need to deliver thousands of individually tailored care packages.
Our struggle with dementia may be ‘blueprint for care’
Syd Mayne has praised the support he and his wife received
By SUE GYFORD
Published on Monday 7 May 2012 12:00
THE self-penned story of a man whose wife was diagnosed with dementia is to be sent to 14,000 care home workers around Britain to encourage them to treat their residents with compassion.
Syd Mayne, 78, wrote Journey into Loneliness after his wife Kate moved from their home in Bonnyrigg to Springfield Bank Care Home in December 2010.
The book charts their life together, the struggle their family faced when Kate was diagnosed with dementia, and the dedication of staff at the care home. The couple met at a dance at the Fountainbridge Palais in 1954, and had three children. Mr Mayne became a TV writer and then sports writer at The Scotsman, and his wife, now 80, worked as a nursery nurse.
‘Give patients smartphones’ call
App designer Geoff Wilcock told BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors programme it would give people access to software that could be created for the NHS.
Mr Wilcox said apps could aid in consultations and cut waiting times.
The Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare said patients expected greater use of technology.
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) held a workshop on mobile phone applications last month.
The agency said that by 2014 it was expected that some 77 billion apps will have been downloaded from the Android and Apple phone markets.
Mr Wilcock, who took part in the workshop, said the NHS could provide patients with low-cost smartphones.
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