Tag Archives: Older care

GPS shoes give dementia sufferers freedom

March 9, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

A great use of technology

 

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Compulsory training for Care home staff to protect elderly

March 9, 2013   Carers, Older care

Care home staff to have compulsory training under government plans to protect elderly

Care home staff will be forced to undergo compulsory training for the first time under government plans to protect the elderly from abuse and neglect, The Telegraph can disclose.

Residents and their relatives will be able to comment on services and score them

By , Political Correspondent

9:58PM GMT 08 Mar 2013

The lack of basic requirements for training care workers is leaving frail pensioners in the hands of staff who have “no idea what they are doing”, Norman Lamb, the health minister, warned.

Proposals expected within weeks will outline national minimum standards for preparing new recruits to work in nursing homes. Carers who help with tasks such as washing and dressing elderly people in their own homes will also be required to undertake the training.

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International Women’s Day: Who cares?

March 8, 2013   Carers, dementia, Older care

An older working carer reviews her experience in a changing world by Maria Parsons

Friday, March 8, 2013
12:44 AM

Maria Parsons looks at the issue of carers in her essay for The International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK).

Maria Parsons is committed to improving services for older people and their carers. A social worker, academic and policy lead with health, social care and housing, formerly Director of Oxford and London Dementia Services Development Centres, she is now Director of the Creative Dementia Arts Network (CDAN).

International Women’s Day offers a rare opportunity to formally recognise women’s care of older people and to place ‘who cares’ firmly back onto the political agenda. For amidst the policy debates and government responses to Dilnot, scant attention, if any, has being paid to the ‘who’ of care funding; specifically on ‘whom’ and ‘what’ will the funds made available be spent?

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