Every minute in the UK someone dies. That’s over half a million people a year, but many of us are still not receiving good end-of-life care or having our dying wishes met. This can cause unnecessary pain and suffering.
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End-of-life care should be a positive experience
People deserve to have their end-of-life care wishes met
With the number of dying each year expected to increase, the government needs to make the right to a good death a priority
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Eve Richardson
- The Guardian,
Providing home-based end-of-life care should be a positive experience.
Selsey carers support and care for one another
Selsey supporters show value of caring for others
Published on Wednesday 18 January 2012 13:00
Caring for the carers is the philosophy of an extremely active group in Selsey – and its members want to reach out to help more of the ‘hidden carers’ who can often become isolated and have their dedicated efforts overlooked.
The Selsey and District Carers Support Group was set up in August 2000. Janet Harris MBE, the recently-deceased founder, started the group in her home, initially because she found herself so isolated when her husband became ill.
As she explained: “I discovered, like most fulltime carers, how incredibly lonely, exhausting, frightening, frustrating and thankless the situation can become with no support, help or advice for either my husband or myself.
“I did not choose to become a full-time carer; it happened overnight and out of necessity.”
Lords back disability benefit shake-up
The government has headed off a House of Lords defeat over plans to replace the Disability Living Allowance.
17 January 2012 Last updated at 20:25
Ministers want to amend the system to make sure claimants have more medical tests, but opponents say this will mean 500,000 people will lose benefits.
A proposal to delay the scheme by carrying out an extended pilot project before it is implemented across the country was beaten by 16 votes.
The government suffered three Lords defeats on the issue last week.
Introduced in 1992 to help disabled people cope with the extra costs they face in their daily lives, Disability Living Allowance is paid to two million people of working age.
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