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Would the integration of health and social care promote independent living?
Medical intervention is appropriate for people who are sick, but not normally for people who are well – whether they are disabled or not
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Jane Young
- Guardian Professional,
Norman Lamb has been the care services minister at the Department of Health for just a few weeks, and it seems that the integration of health and social care services is one of his key interests and policy aims.
But there appears to be scant consideration, by Norman Lamb, Dan Poulter or indeed the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, of whether such integration would actually deliver independent living for working age disabled adults – or, for that matter, for older disabled adults.
The pioneers of independent living, back in the 1970s and 80s, did not consider independent living support to have much in common with health services.
The True Story Of A Man Who Lived With The 10-year Terminal Illness Of His Wife
Guest Blog – Max Emmenegge
WILL YOU TELL HER, OR SHALL I?
The True Story Of A Man Who Lived With The 10-year Terminal Illness Of His Wife
An Autobiography
My wife Liz had a massive seizure one evening when we were dressing to go out to dinner with friends in Orlando, Florida. The title of my book derives from the question a doctor posed when a CAT Scan revealed a tumour the size of a tennis ball on her meninges. I was barely able to take it in. He took my arm. “Come on, we’ll tell her together.”
Her tumour was, fortunately, benign. It was removed at the Orlando Regional Medical Center a week later. When she was well enough, I brought her home to England to be near the family. I brought her MRI scans with me. She was 53. The year was 1993.
Carers are stressed and exhausted
[Posted: Thu 08/11/2012 by Deborah Condon www.irishhealth.com]
Many carers in Ireland are stressed, exhausted and isolated and have health problems themselves, a new survey has found.
Some 121 carers took part in the online survey. Most were aged between 31 and 60 and the majority of people being cared for were either over 60 or under 18.
Among the carers, almost three in four said that they were more stressed now compared to one year ago. However, almost half said that they were too embarrassed to tell anyone they were stressed.
