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Community and voluntary groups to benefit from £3.2m Derbyshire County Council cash
Community and voluntary groups aimed at supporting older and vulnerable people are in line to benefit from a share of £3.2 million if Derbyshire County Council gives the grants plan the go-ahead.
The county council’s Cabinet, which meets next Tuesday (24th April), will consider giving grants to 230 local voluntary and community organisations across the county.
Old age is coming, but where are my carers?
Beneath the show of senility, I remain the palpitating boy who never wanted a pension
Saturday 21 April 2012
So at what age should you start salting money away for carers? You hope, of course, that all those on whom you’ve showered love will gather round at the last to shower it back, but what if you haven’t showered all that much, or what if you would much rather, anyway, have strangers deal with the gibbering, dribbling satire on yourself you’ve been reduced to?
The state’s no use. The state, we now know, sends around people with PhDs in heartlessness who can’t understand why they’re not on The X Factor or drawing salaries commensurate with their ineptitude, as bankers do. And who would want a banker or a Beyoncé manqué refusing to clean up your mess and deliberately forgetting which tablets you are supposed to take? I leave out such acts of routine abuse as locking you in your room and turning on the gas, or putting a pillow over your face while singing “Love on Top” – those being the upside of state care.
Disgraceful’ increase in great-grandmother’s care costs
Veronica Elliot, 90, who faces a large increase in her care costs
12:10pm Friday 20th April 2012 in Darlington By Andy Walker
A COUNCIL has been accused of letting down the older generation after hundreds of people saw an increase in the amount they contribute towards their care costs.
In November last year, Darlington Borough Council changed the way it assessed people’s ability to pay for their care.
A total of 326 people across the borough were affected by the change.
