Tag Archives: Older care

Policy-by-policy: How's coalition done so far?

January 10, 2013   Carers, disability, Older care

BBC experts’ commentary.

SOCIAL ACTION

Original coalition agreement pledges:

  • Support the creation and expansion of mutuals, co-operatives, charities and social enterprises
  • Public sector workers to form co-operatives and take over delivery of services
  • Encourage volunteering and charitable giving
  • Introduce National Citizen Service
  • Found a Big Society bank to finance local charities and social enterprises
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Great grandmother, 100, died ‘because of carers’ poor English’

January 9, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, ukcuts

A 100-year-old woman died from a fractured skull after falling from a sling because there was a “language barrier” with her foreign nurses, an inquest heard.

Great grandmother, 100, died 'because of carers' poor English'

The medics told the inquest they struggled to treat Mrs Ward because she couldn’t understand the foreign nurses Photo: SWNS

By Hayley Dixon

3:51PM GMT 09 Jan 2013

Great-grandmother May Lavinia Ward was “full of life” until she fell a metre and a half from a bucket sling as she was moved from a chair to a bed, fracturing her skull, and hip and breaking her knee.

Carers Shasha Wei, from China, and Rumyana Ivanova, from Bulgaria, put the bloodied dementia patient back to bed for forty minutes after she had jerked forward onto the floor when one of them let her go.

Her agitation may have been caused because she couldn’t understand them, Hertfordshire Coroners Court heard today.

They had even changed her clothes but eventually a nurse at Meppershall Care Home, Bedfordshire, was informed and paramedics rushed to the scene to find Mrs Ward, who had a broken leg and swollen eye, vomiting dark blood.

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Hampers and food parcels donated to Wimbledon carers

January 6, 2013   Carers, poverty

Over 30 hampers and food parcels have been donated to carers in Wimbledon.

10:00am Sunday 6th January 2013

Home Instead Care staff with the Hampers Home Instead Care staff with the Hampers

The teams at the Wimbledon and Kingston office of Home Instead Senior Care, which provide care to older people in their own homes, used donations to produce the hampers.

Using food and goodies donated by staff, families, friends and contacts, the team received contributions from across the borough for their 2012 Hamper appeal.

Clare Jefferies, owner of Home Instead Care said: “We recognise that there are many who have such a tough life, caring for loved ones and dealing with very difficult situations, usually through no fault of their own. We thought it would be good to help bring a bit of cheer to their lives.

“We asked local organisations to identify people who most needed help and we were delighted to drop off 30 hampers to The Wimbledon Guild, Kingston Carers Network, Carers Support Merton, Kingston Association for the Blind, Merton Voluntary Services Council and The Stroke Association.

“We do hope this goes some way in making a small difference to older people within our local community and will ensure they have a selection of treats to look forward to, well into the new year.”

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news

 

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