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Britain has one paid carer for every 100 pensioners…
Britain has one carer for every 100 pensioners… among the worst in the world
Last updated at 11:13 PM on 1st July 2011
Britain has just one carer per 100 pensioners – a smaller proportion than anywhere else in the developed world, figures show.
According to an international survey, Ireland has three times as many carers per 100 pensioners. The U.S. has five times as many and Sweden has 12 times as many.
The figures, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which represents industrialised nations, help explain the poor quality of care in many of our residential homes, as well as the appalling standards of home-help services, which last month were described as an affront to the human rights of the elderly.
Rare: The number of carers working in Britain has halved since the 1990s
Waiting for Dilnot
Waiting for Dilnot
Tags: Care | Dilnot | Health | Public spending.
The Dilnot report on July 4 is likely to recommend a partnership between the individual and the state to meet the costs of long-term care. Now the coalition needs to turn words into action
With the report of Andrew Dilnot’s independent Commission on Funding of Care and Support just days away, hopes are high that it will provide solutions to an issue that has stubbornly resisted previous efforts at reform – going way back to the 1999 Royal Commission established by Tony Blair’s government.
Drug side–effect linked with increased health risks for over 65s
24 June 2011
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
As part of the Medical Research Council’s Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies project, the study is the first systematic investigation into the long–term health impacts of ‘anticholinergic activity’ – a known potential side–effect of many prescription and over–the–counter drugs which affects the brain by blocking a key neurotransmitter called acetylcholine. The findings are published today by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
