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Can technology help us to support the ageing population?
How we care for our older relatives and neighbours could be the greatest challenge facing society
Alex Smith
Guardian Professional, Wednesday 30 May 2012 08.30 BST
Over the coming decades, older people face a perfect storm. They will reach retirement age when people are living longer than ever, pensions are in crisis and national government and local authorities are facing unprecedented spending cuts. Serious medical conditions, and the socio-economic challenges resulting from ageing, are on the rise – with dementia causing particular distress to many older people and their families, and isolation proving a persistent curse.
This crisis will only deepen over time. Tax revenues continue to diminish and state-led solutions, which for the past 70 years have provided comfort, dignity and care for people in old age, are not going to provide all the answers in future, no matter which political party is in power.
Free courses for unpaid carers
Published on Sunday 27 May 2012 09:09
CARERS can learn how to design cards on a computer at free courses which are being held in June.
A two-week course will take place on Thursday, June 14, and Thursday, June 21, at the old TA building, Elizabeth Street, Corby.
Patients promised online GP booking by 2015
Patients in England will be able to book GP appointments and get test results online within three years, ministers are promising.
The moves are part of an Information Strategy designed to “take the hassle out of the health service”.
Online communications between patients and their doctors is already happening in some places.
But the strategy sets out plans to ensure there is universal adoption of digital technologies.
