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Aberdeen dementia patient ‘had 106 paid carers’

Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.

By Eleanor Bradford BBC Scotland Health Correspondent

 Jeanette Maitland said the turnover in carers was an affront to her husband’s dignity

A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.

Jeanette Maitland said the constant stream of different faces sent by agencies working for Aberdeen’s social work department contravened her husband Ken’s basic human right to dignity.

Mr Maitland died from a dementia-related illness last week.

Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.

Mrs Maitland told BBC Scotland she initially wrote down the names of her husband’s carers so that she could get to know them.

Carers express concerns over new policy of ‘self-directed care’

8 May 2012 17:16 BST

 

 

 

Care fears: Groups worry about “lack of knowledge” and potential “abuse”.

Care providers from the public, private and voluntary sectors have all expressed “anxiety” about a “seismic shift” in the provision of care for vulnerable people, MSPs have heard.

New legislation could allow disabled people to buy their own alternatives to council-run social care.

However, Holyrood’s Health Committee on Tuesday heard concerns raised by some nurses as well as private and voluntary care providers who may need to deliver thousands of individually tailored care packages.

Our struggle with dementia may be ‘blueprint for care’

Syd Mayne has praised the support he and his wife received

By SUE GYFORD
Published on Monday 7 May 2012 12:00

THE self-penned story of a man whose wife was diagnosed with dementia is to be sent to 14,000 care home workers around Britain to encourage them to treat their residents with compassion.

Syd Mayne, 78, wrote Journey into Loneliness after his wife Kate moved from their home in Bonnyrigg to Springfield Bank Care Home in December 2010.

The book charts their life together, the struggle their family faced when Kate was diagnosed with dementia, and the dedication of staff at the care home. The couple met at a dance at the Fountainbridge Palais in 1954, and had three children. Mr Mayne became a TV writer and then sports writer at The Scotsman, and his wife, now 80, worked as a nursery nurse.