Guernsey respite centre closes to adults
A Guernsey respite centre for those with physical and learning difficulties will close to adults at the end of the year.
Users of The Croft, in St Sampson, were told in a letter sent last week.
Health Minister Hunter Adam said his department would be meeting with those who required respite care and their carers to discuss the future.
He said the aim was to find out what type of care was needed and provide it in “a more appropriate manner”.
The centre, which is a six-bed residential unit, will continue to provide short breaks for children.
Deputy John Gollop, the States Disability Champion, said he understood the change came from a need to separate children and adults in needs of care.
Care wrangle has torn Sunderland couple apart after 65 years
They were childhood sweethearts – but a care wrangle has torn this Sunderland couple apart after 65 years
Florrie Graham, with a photograph of her wedding day in June 1946. She is apart from her husband Jos for the first time in 66 years.
INSEPERABLE throughout more than 65 years of marriage, an elderly couple have been left heartbroken after being forced to live apart after a wrangle over care funding.
War veteran Joseph Graham, 92, and his wife Florence, 90, are both devastated that she is not being allowed to move into the same care home as him, despite suffering from dementia.
The pair met as children growing up in the same Deptford street and later became teenage sweethearts.
The importance of social care to elderly people in Wales
Bill has the potential to ward off problems in the provision of social care
- by Julia McWatt, Western Mail
- Sep 10 2012
Amy Clifton outlines the importance of social care to elderly people in Wales
IT IS widely acknowledged that the existing arrangements for providing care in Wales are struggling under increasing pressure and a lack of resources.
Quality of services, eligibility criteria for care services and the amount that people pay for those services vary significantly across Wales.
In most local authorities today, people with low, moderate, and often substantial care needs do not receive any support from care authorities.
Unpaid carers – the majority of whom are aged over 50, currently provide 96% of care in communities across Wales.
