Topic: | Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | |
Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
Date/Time: | 07/02/20 19:20:00 |
I believe Govt has this listed to be a cross party solution. When? Situation is dire. It needs to be joined up with the NHS because so much of it is relating to hospital discharge. It's all under stress. There have been several items on the radio recently about families taking their elderly relatives with dementia to Thailand to place them in care there and then returning themselves to Europe. It is a long way to go to visit! They reckon that it is a better quality of care. The carers we saw were paid minimum wage and were rushing from one service user to another. It took one hour for a good carer to get FIL up and out of bed and washed and dressed, meds taken and with breakfast in front of him while she wrote up the book. That is a good carer and with nothing going wrong eg looking for a hearing aid. I sometimes prepared the fruit for the breakfast if I was there. The elderly don't like to be pulled and pushed around and don't move as fast as younger people. No time for sitting and chatting as well which is why friends to visit were always very welcome, together with the chiropodist, the lady from the library and the lady who cut hair. Unfortunately I discovered that the carers had several service users timetabled for the same time or overlapping and they were not being paid for their time travelling between them which they are entitled to by law. When you think about it most people want to get out of bed and have breakfast at about the same time. Certainly plenty of time before a hot lunch is delivered. I'm glad we chose a different service for lunch otherwise it could all have happened at the same time. A similar problem happened with bedtime. Nobody wants to be put to bed at 6pm. Everyone wanted the later slots - this is because a lot of older people doze off several times during the day. And nobody told me and I didn't realise that until I experienced it and just how tiring it is when you yourself don't! The care home used for respite a couple of times had a problem too with lack of staff. Although each room had a shower there weren't enough staff available to have one. Most people don't seem to realise how costly elderly care is, or that they have to pay for it if they have more than a certain amount of savings. It would be better to pay more tax for just this. We are living much longer and it is no good just living for today and pretending that you are not going to become old and disabled. You may not have a say! But everyone votes for low tax - duh. |
Topic | Date Posted | Posted By |
How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 07/02/20 18:17:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 07/02/20 19:18:00 | Andy Pike |
Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 07/02/20 19:20:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 07/02/20 19:33:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 07/02/20 19:37:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
Re:Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 07/02/20 20:11:00 | Andy Pike |
Re:Re:Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 17:22:00 | Bunny Payne |
Reply | 07/02/20 20:13:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 07/02/20 20:36:00 | Ivonne Holliday |
Reply | 07/02/20 20:54:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 07/02/20 21:42:00 | Lucille Grant |
Reply | 07/02/20 22:02:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 08/02/20 01:28:00 | Philippa Bond |
Re:Re:Reply | 08/02/20 09:06:00 | Lucille Grant |
Re:Re:Re:Reply | 08/02/20 15:46:00 | Philippa Bond |
Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 15:46:00 | Ruth Pates |
Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 15:54:00 | Ruth Pates |
Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 17:35:00 | Bunny Payne |
Reply | 09/02/20 18:02:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 09/02/20 18:09:00 | Ruth Pates |
Reply | 09/02/20 18:29:00 | Michael Ixer |
Re:Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 19:44:00 | Barbara Stevens |
Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 17:44:00 | Caroline Whitehead |
Re:Re:Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 09/02/20 18:07:00 | Ruth Pates |
Reply | 09/02/20 19:20:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 09/02/20 19:39:00 | Andy Pike |
Reply | 09/02/20 20:00:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 09/02/20 21:05:00 | Andy Pike |
Reply | 09/02/20 21:18:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 09/02/20 21:23:00 | Andy Pike |
Reply | 09/02/20 21:38:00 | Martine Guy |
Reply | 09/02/20 22:07:00 | Michael Ixer |
Re:Reply | 09/02/20 21:37:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 09/02/20 21:55:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 19/02/20 22:13:00 | Philippa Bond |
Re:Re:Reply | 19/02/20 23:00:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 19/02/20 23:08:00 | Michael Ixer |
Reply | 19/02/20 23:16:00 | Martine Guy |
Reply | 20/02/20 09:35:00 | Sean Hodges |
Re:How Do We Solve the Care Crisis? | 21/02/20 15:42:00 | John Hawkes |
Reply | 21/02/20 17:14:00 | Martine Guy |
Reply | 21/02/20 17:38:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 21/02/20 17:39:00 | John Hawkes |
Re:Re:Reply | 21/02/20 17:41:00 | John Hawkes |
Re:Re:Re:Reply | 21/02/20 18:16:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
Reply | 21/02/20 18:42:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Re:Re:Reply | 21/02/20 18:54:00 | Philippa Bond |
Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply | 21/02/20 19:00:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 21/02/20 19:11:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 21/02/20 19:15:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 21/02/20 19:51:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 21/02/20 21:07:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 21/02/20 21:48:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Reply | 22/02/20 08:58:00 | Mike Warman |
Reply | 22/02/20 12:31:00 | Martine Guy |
Reply | 22/02/20 15:29:00 | Michael Ixer |
Re:Reply | 23/02/20 10:04:00 | Philippa Bond |
Reply | 23/02/20 11:43:00 | Michael Ixer |
Reply | 23/02/20 14:32:00 | Martine Guy |
Reply | 23/02/20 18:50:00 | Michael Ixer |
Re:Reply | 23/02/20 19:18:00 | Jonathan Callaway |
Reply | 23/02/20 20:06:00 | Martine Guy |
Re:Re:Reply | 23/02/20 22:49:00 | Philippa Bond |