Tag Archives: Older care

East Lancs elderly could be left in financial black hole

August 1, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, health, Older care

 Mr Key said his firm will struggle to pay its homecare workers the £7.20-an-hour rate.

EAST Lancashire’s pensioners could be left with no-one to care for them unless urgent action is taken to fill a financial black hole, it was claimed.

Private companies have joined a campaign to highlight the effects of implementing a new National Living Wage.

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How does your garden grow?

June 27, 2015   Alzheimer’s, Carers, Featured Article, health

John Jeffry, the Carers Garden, Brighton

‘I go out in the country sometimes and take cuttings, put them in rooting compound, then stick them in the ground. Sloes and things like that’

John Jeffry: ‘Coming here was a break. It gave me a bit of focus. I like the company.’ Photograph: Sophia Evans for the Guardian

You feel on top of the world up here – it makes everything else seem so small. The Carers Centre set up this allotment to give people a few hours break from caring each week. When I heard about it I really wanted to come but couldn’t because my wife Ellen had Alzheimer’s. When she went into a nursing home, it was hard, but coming here was a break. It gave me a bit of focus. I like the company.

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Elderly ‘being trapped’ in hospital, says Age UK

June 17, 2015   Carers, Featured Article, hospital, Older care

Elderly people are “trapped” in English hospitals in ever greater numbers as there is nowhere else for them to go, the charity Age UK has warned.

Its analysis shows patients spent a total of nearly 2.5 million days stuck in a hospital over the past five years.

Age UK said it was bad for patients’ health, a waste of NHS resources and a huge cost to taxpayers.

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