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£150m home care boost for elderly patients
£150m home care boost for elderly patients
Ministers have allocated an extra £150m for patients to get care at home after warnings that local authority cuts were creating a “crisis” in social care.
Warning over cuts to care of Norfolk elderly
Campaigners fear death rates among the elderly will increase this winter because of spending cuts.
Richard Wheeler Friday, December 30, 2011
6:00 AM
The concerns have been raised after Age UK director Michelle Mitchell yesterday warned elderly care will be plunged into “absolute crisis” by the government decreasing the cash available to council social care budgets.
She added this could end up costing more in the long run, with thousands of older people ending up in hospital rather than receiving care at home.
And Lady Joyce Hopwood, chairman of the Norfolk Older People’s Strategic Partnership Board, said more vulnerable and frail people were missing out on the help they needed.
She added that this was because councils and charitable groups were attempting to manage decreasing budgets and increasing workloads.
Carers to get legal rights and support in reforms
Carers are to be given legal rights under government plans to increase the assistance available to the six million Britons who look after other people.
Ministers want to ensure that carers are given support to continue working or studying and to receive time off.
The rights of carers are expected to be put on the same legal footing as those of the people they look after.
There are estimated to be about six million people caring for husbands, wives, children, parents or neighbours, but the Government admits that “many do not get the emotional, financial and practical support they need”.
