Tag Archives: social care
Controversial social care cuts likely to be ditched
but Norfolk council tax bills would rise to cover cost
15:12 25 January 2016
Two of the most controversial proposals in a package of cuts to services for vulnerable people should be ditched, councillors have recommended – but council tax bills would have to rise to cover the cost of safeguarding them.
Old people need to see their family three times a week
Why just emailing elderly relatives can double risk of depression
Study is thought to be the first to examine the impact of different types of social contact on the elderly
- It also highlights just how important it is to spend time with our older generation – among whom th
- Study is thought to be the first to examine the impact of different types of social contact on the elderly
- There is said to be an ‘epidemic’ of loneliness
- Speaking on the phone or being contacted online was not enough to replace seeing elderly face-to-face
- Those forms of contact did nothing to cut depression risk, experts say
By Colin Fernandez, Science Correspondent For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:09, 6 October 2015 | Updated: 06:19, 6 October 2015
Families should visit their older relatives three times a week to help prevent them from becoming depressed, experts say.
Britain’s oldest surviving prisoner of war, 97, is living on charity handouts
In fear of eviction SIX MONTHS after his London council vowed to meet his care costs
- Robbie Clark, 97, has lived in his Burnt Oak, London, home for 50 years
- He spent all of his £50,000 life savings over two years on a live-in carer
- Brent Council apparently vowed to meet care costs following a petition
- But six months on, council has failed to honour its promise, it is claimed
- Now, Mr Clark, Britain’s oldest prisoner of war, is living in fear of eviction
By Sophie Jane Evans for MailOnline
A 97-year-old man thought to be Britain’s oldest surviving prisoner of war is living in fear of eviction six months after his council vowed to meet his care costs – and allegedly failed to keep its promise.
Robbie Clark, one of the few UK soldiers to have survived Hitler’s 1,000-mile death march, is also surviving on charity handouts at his north London home, where he has lived for the past 50 years.
