Tag Archives: carer

Do you want to learn how to use the internet?

October 5, 2011   Carers, disability, internet, Norfolk
Free IT lessons in Norwich
Please note Baseline is going to be running two Go-On IT Session’s every Friday 1st session from 3-4pm and second session from 4-5pm the programe will be running from Friday the 7th October through to early March 2012. The sessions are aimed at beginners and cover all the basics from turning on a computer and learning how to use a mouse to getting online and setting up an email address.
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Ways that my son with autism has embarrassed me

October 4, 2011   autism, Carers

Autism, Social Thinking and Embarrassment: It’s Not a Bad Thing…

 

A couple of weeks back, the theme for a wonderful facebook group called Special Saturday was Embarrassing Moments. This has been rattling around in my head for a while now as I have been considering a couple of different ways that I could approach this as a topic.

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The results of years of underfunding for care

September 26, 2011   Carers, family, Older care

Don’t ask relatives to fill the elderly care gap

The idea that visiting hours could be extended so relatives can care for patients shows something is seriously wrong in the NHS

The RCN has suggested that visitors could tend to the needs of elderly patients.

The Royal College of Nursing’s suggestion that hospital visiting hours should be extended so visitors can tend to the needs of hospital patients, particularly older people, highlights, yet again, the inadequacy of UK care. With an ageing population and a woefully underfunded system of care, we are heading for a major crisis if we do not wake up to the challenges that are already upon us. When it comes to care for older people, a fortune is spent on the health service, but care is considered very much the poor relation.

Yet inadequate care of elderly patients can be just as life-threatening as inadequate attention to their medical needs. We read about pensioners dying of malnutrition in hospitals and of nursing staff so overstretched that they neglect the basic care needs of the elderly. This is a result of years of underfunding for care.

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