Most elderly ‘never use internet’
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.
Safeguarding adults: how do we protect the most vulnerable?
All staff, from cleaners to chief executives, should know how to raise concerns over abuse and ensure they are listened to
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Keith Brown
- Guardian Professional,
While there is a sense of some justice that carers from the notorious Winterbourne View hospital are now in jail, there is still one terrible tragedy that remains unaddressed.
How could there be so many people working in the hospital who did not raise the alarm? Moreover, how does a culture like that start in a hospital or care setting in the first place and who is looking at the leadership model that allow it to happen?
Today, Bournemouth University is hosting a conference on safeguarding adults. We were told that those working in social care no longer have time for conferences but had hoped 200 people might attend. Instead, we closed the list at 300 people and have another 70 on a waiting list.
”I have dementia, but I still have a life to live”
”I have dementia, but I still have a life to live”
15 November 2012
How to respond to the growing challenge of dementia with patchy levels of diagnosis, care and support were among the issues discussed at Public Service Events’ Dementia, a National Crisis conference in Manchester. Caroline Pennington reports
October saw the new Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promise that NHS dementia care in England would be the best in the world by 2015. A week prior to this bold affirmation the mood on the challenge of dementia at the Manchester conference centre was one of hesitant optimism gritted with realism.
Andrew Chidgey, director of external affairs at the Alzheimer’s Society, reminded delegates of the pervasive nature of the illness. “It is the personal experience of people living with dementia, their carers and families, which people are finding very difficult,” he said. “People are being diagnosed late, or not at all. People often are not getting the care and support – at the right time – that they need.”
