You lie in your own mess. You are cold. You are hungry and confused. You can’t remember whether you have taken your pills. You feel ashamed. You feel angry. It is still five hours before someone will knock on the door, let herself in, and wash you. You hope for a few minutes’ talk but you know that it won’t happen. She only has a quarter of an hour for your appointment …
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Minister asks why councils are not helping the frail and disabled
Elderly care cut as councils divert £2bn cash to plug gaps
Elderly people are suffering because councils are cutting hundreds of millions of pounds from their nursing and care home budgets, the Coalition admits today.
Elderly people are suffering because councils are cutting hundreds of millions of pounds from their nursing and care home budgets
By Tim Ross, Political Correspondent
Paul Burstow, the care services minister and a Liberal Democrat MP, is demanding to know why councils are failing to pass on £2 billion of extra money that the Government allocated to support for frail and disabled adults.
In an interview with The Telegraph, he accused dozens of authorities of “clearly” failing to act “in the best interests” of their residents.
Who will speak for the old and disabled, trapped in their homes?
We hear a lot about how cuts affect women and the young – but the crisis in social care is perhaps the greatest of them all
The most vocally excluded of all in our society are the old and poor.
Carers struggle with fuel poverty
Carers fuel poverty
9 out of 10 of Nation’s Carers worried about impending winter fuel bills, risking health, incurring debt and sacrificing comfort as a result of increasingly high energyA new survey commissioned by Turn2us, part of the national charity Elizabeth Finn Care, reveals the worrying situation faced by the UK’s six million carers as winter approaches.
