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Making improvements for carers in Gwent
Carers need more support
12:31pm Thursday 1st September 2011
By Andy Rutherford – Health correspondent »
THE focus and attention given to the needs of carers by the NHS in Gwent is “patchy and sporadic” and improvements are being planned to meet the demands of new Wales-wide regulations.
The numbers of carers across Gwent runs into the tens of thousands – there are believed to be 15,000 in Newport alone – and more pertinently, there are predicted to be large increases in carers aged 65 and over during the next 20 years.
Elderly carer numbers are expected to rise by almost a third (31 per cent) in Gwent by 2030, though this could vary between 26 per cent (in Newport) and 37 per cent (in Monmouthshire).
Children are at risk of losing out on essential life experiences that outdoor play brings
Mitcham Fun Day aims to reverse decline of children playing outside
10:02am Friday 12th August 2011
More than a thousand children, parents and carers enjoyed a sun-soaked play day last week as part of a campaign to get more young people playing outside.
New research has revealed that, while 72 per cent of parents regularly played outside, only 40 per cent of children today play outside to the same extent.
Savlon and Play England, the groups behind the findings, are worried children are at risk of losing out on essential life experiences that outdoor play brings.
There is a lack of trust today for the care of the elderly
Three in four of us don’t trust care homes to look after our relatives properly
By Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 8:29 AM on 8th August 2011
Three in four Britons plan to look after their elderly relatives themselves because they don’t trust homes to care for them properly.
Eight in ten would rather their quality of life be affected than that of their parents or grandparents, according to a poll of 2,000 men and women whose parents are beginning to struggle to live in their own houses.
Two-thirds of the women surveyed said they would feel they were letting a loved one down by putting them in a home.
