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Carers of relatives in England to get legal rights
The proposals could include carers’ rights to respite breaks, education and training
Ministers are planning to grant legal rights for the first time to people in England who spend hours caring for elderly or disabled relatives.
Under the proposals, local authorities would be legally obliged to offer support to such carers.
Some 1.25 million people spend 50 hours a week or more caring for family members who are unable to cope alone.
Proposals are due to be published “within the next few weeks” after recommendations by the Law Commission.
Care home residents who pay subsidising the rest, owners admit
At present anyone with assets worth more than £23,500 has no help from the state in funding their care even though some face costs of up to £100,000 a year
Middle class people in care homes are being charged up to £12,000 a year extra to subsidise the cost of those who receive free care, owners have admitted.
More than four out of five care home operators admit they have had to put up prices for those who pay for their own way because of councils cuts – with some suggesting that the difference in cost is now up to 50 per cent.
They say that it amounts to an extra “tax” on those deemed well enough off to pay for care – effectively meaning that they are being charged twice.
But care home operators said they would go out of business if they were not able to charge so-called self-funders higher fees.
Sisters are confirmed as the world’s oldest siblings 105 aand 108
Happy, happy birthday
Marjorie Ruddle, 105, left, and Dorrie Richards, 108, have been entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest siblings
TWO sisters have earned their place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest siblings.
Dorrie Richards, who is 108 years and five months old and her sister Marjorie Ruddle, who turned 105 last month, received their certificates during an emotional reunion yesterday.
They had not seen each other for more than two-and-a-half years because it is difficult to transport them between the care homes where they live.
Dorrie is a resident at Whitefriars in Ryhall Road, Stamford. Yesterday two carers from Whitefriars volunteered their time to accompany Dorrie to Park House nursing home in Peterborough to visit her sister and collect her certificate.
