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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.
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.
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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.
Biggest mental health trust at mercy of worried doctors
The first major casualty of controversial NHS reforms, which give doctors the power to commission services, looks set to be the end of the West’s biggest mental health organisation, it emerged yesterday
Doctors in both Bristol and in Wiltshire are looking into the possibility of scrapping an agreement with the troubled Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) and ‘re-tendering’ the job of looking after mentally-ill patients in their individual areas.
Social care funding gap in England ‘can be plugged’
29 May 2012 Last updated at 00:40
The government said it would be publishing its plans soon.
A review published last year suggested care costs should be capped, but this would cost an extra £1.7bn a year.
The Nuffield Trust analysis believes this sum could be found from within existing public sector spending.
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