Tag Archives: Older care
Elderly couples face paying £100,000 for care
Elderly couples face paying £100,000 for care
Elderly couples face bills of up to £100,000 for residential homes under plans to be announced next week after the government warned pensioners their care will “never, ever” be free.
By Tim Ross, Social Affairs Editor
10:00PM BST 29 Jun 2011
Paul Burstow, the health minister, ruled out introducing a new NHS-style free national care service for all, and urged the public to accept “the nasty truth” that all but the poorest will have to pay for their own care.
Plans to be published on Monday are expected to propose a limit on how much individuals pay towards the cost of a care home place, meals on wheels, home adaptations and visits from helpers. The govern
Coroner calls for lessons to be learned following Norfolk man’s death
Coroner calls for lessons to be learned following Norfolk man’s death in ‘horrific’ circumstances
By PETER WALSH Thursday, June 30, 2011
10.07 AM
A coroner has demanded lessons be learned after social services failed to check on an 82-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease who was then found dead in “horrific” circumstances.
Social services staff were supposed to check on Kenneth Mills four times a day, but they failed to do so and his son faced the “terrible trauma” of finding his father dead and his frail mother lying in her own urine next to him.
Care Quality Commission hit by ‘no confidence’ petition
29 June 2011 Last updated at 05:59
A Panorama reporter filmed residents being pinned down, slapped and tauntedWorkers in the residential care home sector have signed a petition of no confidence in the industry regulator – the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
