Tag Archives: Older care

Frail elderly ‘face carers shortage’

August 24, 2013   Carers, Older care, ukcuts
24 August 2013 Last updated at 00:02

The researchers used population projections and survey data in their report

By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News

Hands of an elderly person

There will be a shortfall in the number of people able to provide vital unpaid care to frail elderly people in the coming years, a report says.The London School of Economics analysis suggested the gap will start becoming evident by 2017 in England.

By 2032, 160,000 elderly people will be left without the support they need – about one in seven of those who will need help, the experts predicted.

This is because the oldest age groups will grow at the fastest rate.

Researchers used population projections and survey data to compile the figures.

Currently an estimated 675,000 older people rely on unpaid carers – mainly their children – as they fall outside the state support system, which is available to the poorest.

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Government should do more to get ‘marginalised’ older people online

August 23, 2013   Carers, internet, Older care

Age UK has said the number of old people who feel isolated would be reduced if more of them were online.

 

Age UK have called on the government to get older people online. 7:00AM BST 23 Aug 2013

The charity cited a study showing that older people who know how to use the internet are nearly three times less likely to say they are lonely than those who do not.

Despite this, figures from the ONS released this month show that almost three quarters of women aged 75 and over – two million people – have never been online.

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Woman who ate catfood after care cuts now to get earlier meal

August 16, 2013   Blind, Carers, ukcuts

Suffers hypoglycaemia attacks due to dipping sugar levels causing her to pass out

A BLIND pensioner who claimed she begged strangers in the street to cook her food when her care visits were reduced is relieved her meal times have now been changed.

Jan Milne, a disabled diabetic, said she suffers hypoglycaemia attacks due to dipping sugar levels causing her to pass out.

The 71-year-old widow from Dormanstown, Redcar, receives daily meals when carers visited at 8am, noon, and then 8.30pm. From Monday, the last call out will be replaced with a tea time dish at 5.30pm.

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