Category Archives: stroke

Anger at ‘scandalous’ rise in charges for mum’s home help

A son who looks after his elderly mum says her care bill is set to triple to more than £18,000 under changes being introduced by the city council.

Friday, June 01, 2012

Widow Vera Hunt, 87, is disabled following a stroke four years ago. She is double incontinent with dementia and requires two carers to attend to her four times a day.

  1. ​Her son, Martin, 55, gave up his job and house to help care for Vera at the pensioner’s home in Wintersdale Road, near Uppingham Road, Leicester, but says her life savings will now be drained to pay for increased charges.

He is angry and deeply upset that every penny of savings put away by his parents, who had paid their taxes all their life, would have to be spent on his mum’s elderly care.

“She contributes more than £6,000 a year and because I’m looking after her she isn’t a burden to the local authority,” said Martin.

“I need carers to come in and help hoist her out of bed and change her incontinent pads, but apart from that I’m doing everything else.

Carers from Norwich and Norfolk complete daredevil jump to raise over £1,800 for the Stroke Association

David Freezer Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:30 AM

Carers from Norwich, Hingham and Kings Lynn took part in a daring ‘vertigo challenge’ to raise over £1,800 for the Stroke Association recently.

 

The group from Mears Care in Norfolk, teamed up with colleagues from Suffolk and Cambridgeshire for the challenge in Bedford on Sunday, May 20.

They had to climb to the roof of a wind tunnel tower via ladder before making an 125ft power fan jump off the side.

Action on Stroke Month

This month saw the launch of the UK’s first Action on Stroke Month, an annual event organised by the Stroke Association and supported by the Wellcome Trust

 

The two different types of stroke –

Earlier this month, the Stroke Association launched the U.K.’s first Action on Stroke Month, an annual campaign that aims “to increase awareness of the impact of stroke and reach out to many more stroke survivors, their families and carers.”

The campaign is supported by the Wellcome Trust, which has put together a package of materials that are being published throughout the month.