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Thanks offered to West Sussex Headway carers
Tea Party to celebrate
Tea at Ardington Hotel for West Sussex Headway
A TEA party celebrated the hard work of carers for people with head injuries.
West Sussex Headway, which has offered “priceless support” to service users and carers alike across the county, held its tea party at The Ardington Hotel, in Steyne Gardens, Worthing.
Pete Sangster is a volunteer for Headway, and his wife, Gwyn, now runs the support group after suffering a brain injury in 2003 and using the charity’s services.
Pete, 63, started volunteering for the group seven years ago, and said: “Gwyn had two brain haemorrhages in September, 2003.
“She did not know who I was for three weeks.
Care Home Costs To Be Funded By State Loans
Plans to let the elderly delay care home costs until they die through the use of state loans are to be outlined by the Government.
9:53am UK, Wednesday 11 July 2012
By Thomas Moore, Health Correspondent
Pensioners are to be offered state loans so that they do not have to sell their own homes to cover the cost of residential care, under new Government plans.
People will be able to borrow money from councils at nominal interest rates to finance going into care and the cash would not have to be paid back until after they die.
The scheme, being introduced across England in April 2015, is intended to help around 40,000 people each year who are forced to sell their homes to cover care costs.
But critics are already attacking the strategy, arguing that families will still have to sell the property when their relative dies in order to pay back the loan and will also be landed with the interest.
