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No help for the aged: Home carers axed for our old and most vulnerable
Elderly people are suffering as £1billion is slashed from councils
For our most vulnerable pensioners, home care visits are the lifeline that allows them to live with dignity.
But the Sunday Mirror can today reveal they have become the latest service to fall victim to the Government’s funding axe.
A fresh wave of cuts has led to the price of having a carer visit a sick or elderly person soaring by 10 per cent.
Carers help the sick, frail and elderly get up in the morning, get washed, dressed and fed. They also lend a hand with household chores and shopping.
Mum wins fight with Bournemouth Council over care for disabled son
Mum wins fight with Bournemouth Council over care for disabled son – and calls for resignations
11:00am Friday 25th May 2012 in News By Melanie Vass
A MUM who has spent 18 months fighting to retain her severely disabled son’s care package has forced Bournemouth council to back down.
Lorraine Zavadil, 53, took on the council after it originally tried to cut the budget for her son Tarik’s care package by almost 70 per cent.
This would have meant that 28-year-old Tarik, who has congenital cerebral palsy, epilepsy and profound learning disabilities, is registered blind and is unable to speak, would have been unable to keep his current carers, some of whom have worked with him for over 10 years.
Devoted wife fears she could lose lifeline
COMMITMENT … loyal wife Betty Greenwell is determined to take care of ailing husband Wilf.
By PAUL KELLY
Published on Tuesday 22 May 2012 17:30
A LOYAL wife of a dementia sufferer with cancer has told of her fears over a vital support service they could lose.
The Home Support Service provides a lifeline for Betty Greenwell, 75, of Lilburn Close, East Boldon.
Betty is a devoted carer at home for her dementia-stricken husband Wilf, 86.
The couple were both widowed when they married 13 years ago and made a pledge to care for each other ‘in sickness and in health’.
It’s a commitment loving Betty is determined to see through as her husband also battles bowel cancer.
But she is angry that the future of the support service, funded jointly by South Tyneside Council and the borough’s Primary Care Trust (PCT), is uncertain.
