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Elderly people are facing a “care crisis” as Councils cut funding for residential homes. Social Care budgets are being slashed by an average of 6.6 per cent and prices for services such as home help are going up, a survey by the Commons health select committee found.Four out of five councils...
Supermarket workers are being trained to identify carers of elderly or disabled people under a new Government supported scheme. Sainsbury's workers will give information about local carers services to people doing two lots of shopping at once, or collecting other people's prescriptions....
The economic downturn could be responsible for an increase in the numbers of elderly and disabled people being financially abused. Figures released by Sheffield City Council have shown that reports of vulnerable people suffering financial abuse in the city have risen to 206 in 2010/2011...
Most of us dream of winning the lottery, so when 'Charles,' 83, received a letter telling him that he had won the jackpot, he was over the moon. The letter told him that in order to claim his 'winnings' he would have to pay transfer fees and taxes as well as providing details of his bank...
Higher unemployment and a harder financial climate will make vulnerable adults such as older people with dementia more likely to be financially abused next year.Recent research undertaken by the Alzheimers Society has reported that 15% of dementia sufferers have been subjected to financial abuse...
Today, the Alzheimers Society have launched an important piece of research into the financial abuse of vulnerable adults suffering from dementia in the UK. Con artists are dealing "another body blow" to the most vulnerable in society who need more protection, according to a charity. The Alzheimer's...
Bills faced by families in England for caring for the elderly should be capped at £35,000 an official inquiry is set to tell ministers, the BBC understands. The proposal could stop thousands of people having to sell their house or lose all their savings, says the BBC's political editor Nick...
A new national care system would set out for the first time the basic support that every council in England and Wales must offer for adults who are frail or disabled.The move would stop local authorities attempting to save money by cutting home-help services and care home places for all...
Looking after our elderly is a costly and complex challenge – and it's only going to get harder. Home visiting has been promoted as preferable and cheaper than residential care. But is 15 minutes a day enough? Amelia Gentleman joins carers on their rounds"You'll never have seen something like...
THE future of four care homes in Harrow and Brent is uncertain as their corporate owner fights for survival. Southern Cross, the UK's biggest care home provider, has asked the landlord of about half its 750 properties to defer their rent for four months. About 350 elderly residents of homes in...
