I’m wondering if we couldn’t bring in our young people to do something for our oldies. Here are two pretty well complementary problems: there are too many young people who haven’t got jobs, and too many old people who have problems they can’t solve. With, for example, their computers; with their piles of junk; with their ceiling light bulbs and jammed doors and incomprehensible benefit forms and TV sets that have refused to go digital and… I could go on.
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Help the aged and Carers
Matching young people without jobs and old people who need help is surely one for The Apprentice?
Help at hand: what the elderly need is someone who can do those tricky little jobs. Photograph: Rex
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Caring with Confidence helps unpaid carers make a positive difference to their life and that of the person they care for. If you help or support a family member, friend or neighbour with a long-term physical or mental health condition, disability or problem related to old age, Caring with Confidence can help you develop your skills and knowledge for your caring role.
Severe dementia care: Homes try new approach
The Namaste programme
By Adam Brimelow Health correspondent, BBC News
It is estimated that one-in-three people over 65 will die with dementia.
Researchers say there is a lack of evidence on how to provide the best care for patients with advanced dementia who are terminally ill.
This week a group of leading health charities wrote to the prime minister urging him to make this a priority as part of his “dementia challenge”.
I have been to see a new approach to looking after people with severe dementia that’s on trial in several care homes in south London.
The programme is called Namaste, in this case meaning “to honour the spirit within”.
