You can learn to remember happily http://t.co/bZE23XOo - hope for boomers who might say if you can remember the 60s you weren't there...
252 days ago
Off to blabber on at the Kent Care Conf (I'd say speak, but that'd be both an over & an understatement) I'm looking forward to listening too
257 days ago
I've been saying it for ages. Now World Alz Rep says 27m people have undiagnosed dementia. Same in UK too. 750,000? Pah. Try doubling it.
257 days ago
I've written about the care of people in their own homes before – specifically my Contact the Elderly group, (along the lines of Social Care as not social, nor care). Now the CQC is turning its attention to it - and not before time. With 250,000 people in receipt of social care having their human rights being abused in dreadful ways, just consider the stats:
About 1.8m people get state-funded social care - a third adults with disabilities and two thirds elderly
Nearly 500,000 people are paying their own costs
The average lifetime cost of care is £30,000, but for one in 10 it will total £100,000
More than £14bn is spent on social care by councils
But once inflation is taken into account funding has hardly changed in the past seven years
But as bad, another 800,000 are estimated to go without formal care despite being in need of help.
EVERYONE deserves good care as a human right. And for older people this means respect, compassion, dignity, time and ultimately, a decent quality of life. It's easy to bandy these words about, but training people to deliver this consistently is much less so.
I've written about the care of people in their own homes before – specifically my Contact the Elderly group, (along the lines of Social Care as not social, nor care). Now the CQC is turning its attention to it - and not before time. With 250,000 people in receipt of social care having their human rights being abused in dreadful ways, just consider the stats:
But as bad, another 800,000 are estimated to go without formal care despite being in need of help.
EVERYONE deserves good care as a human right. And for older people this means respect, compassion, dignity, time and ultimately, a decent quality of life. It's easy to bandy these words about, but training people to deliver this consistently is much less so.
Stats source: BBC
Image: http://maculardegenerationdisease.com