Funding for the long-term care of elderly people should be targeted at the poorest pensioners with few or no assets, according to a report by Iain Duncan Smith‘s thinktank.
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Norfolk to get its first Admiral Nurse for dementia care
Norfolk is to get its first Admiral Nurse to help people with dementia and their families, a charity has revealed
By Kim Briscoe
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
6:30 AM
By Kim Briscoe
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
6:30 AM
Admiral Nurses have been described as offering the same sort of support as Macmillan nurses, but for families and people affected by dementia instead of cancer.
There are only 85 Admiral Nurses in the UK and none in Norfolk, but a year ago Dementia UK, the charity behind the nurses, unveiled plans to bring their care to the county.
Barbara Stephens, chief executive of Dementia UK, said: “The very good news is that we have got some funding from a funder, but we can’t say who at this stage.
Elderly care funding should focus on poorest, says Duncan Smith thinktank
Report by Centre for Social Justice calls for resources to be concentrated on pensioners with few or no assets
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Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent
- guardian.co.uk,
Iain Duncan Smith’s thinktank, the Centre for Social Justice, says low pay, poor training and lack of oversight has to led to ‘very poor quality of home care for the most disadvantaged older people’. Photograph: Geoff Newton
Our struggle with dementia may be ‘blueprint for care’
Syd Mayne has praised the support he and his wife received
By SUE GYFORD
Published on Monday 7 May 2012 12:00
THE self-penned story of a man whose wife was diagnosed with dementia is to be sent to 14,000 care home workers around Britain to encourage them to treat their residents with compassion.
Syd Mayne, 78, wrote Journey into Loneliness after his wife Kate moved from their home in Bonnyrigg to Springfield Bank Care Home in December 2010.
The book charts their life together, the struggle their family faced when Kate was diagnosed with dementia, and the dedication of staff at the care home. The couple met at a dance at the Fountainbridge Palais in 1954, and had three children. Mr Mayne became a TV writer and then sports writer at The Scotsman, and his wife, now 80, worked as a nursery nurse.
