WRVS' selection of current, national and regional news stories affecting older people and volunteers.
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09 May 2012
Outlet: Mail Online
The cost of long term residential care for the elderly is set to increase dramatically according to new research from LV=, who predict that by 2025 the annual cost of care will be £33,000 per person.
Tightening eligibility criteria for funding has
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09 May 2012
Outlet: Public Service Review - Online
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Social care services ''are failing elderly''
David Cameron is urged to have the courage to tackle the issue once and for all by various prominent figures
''We must continue to do what's right''
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09 May 2012
Outlet: Inside Housing Online
'Social care should target poor'
8 May 2012 | By Rhiannon Bury
Extra cash for social care should be targeted at the poorest older people, a think-tank established by work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith has said.
The Centre for Soci
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08 May 2012
Outlet: Telegraph.co.uk
Labour is prepared to pull out of cross-party talks on reforming elderly care if the Coalition continues to “kick the issue into the long grass”.
In 2010, one of the Coalition?€?s first acts was to launch a commission on the funding of elderly car
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08 May 2012
Outlet: This Is Money
The annual cost of long term care is expected to increase by 27 per cent by 2025 according to a new report.
With the Bupa 2009 census putting the average age of admission to residential care homes at 82, it is those aged 69 currently – recently re
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08 May 2012
Outlet: Mail Online
The parallel universe of geriatric care is not somewhere most people visit willingly, nor regularly, if they can help it. Most of us cannot even begin to imagine the burgeoning twilight universe which exists alongside ours. After all, the care system
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06 May 2012
Outlet: Guardian.co.uk
Matching young people without jobs and old people who need help is surely one for The Apprentice?
I'm wondering if we couldn't bring in our young people to do something for our oldies. Here are two pretty well complementary problems: there are too
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05 May 2012
Outlet: Health Investor - Online
The long-awaited reform of social care funding in England has been delayed – and is now unlikely to materialise until late next year, it has been reported.
The Financial Times said it had learnt that no Bill will be brought forward in the coming s
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03 May 2012
Outlet: FTadviser.com
A cross-party group of MPs has launched an independent inquiry into the future of long-term care provision in preparation for the government’s social care White Paper this month.
Chris Horlick, managing director of Care for Partnership, said membe
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03 May 2012
Outlet: mirror.co.uk
We can reveal today health cuts in Real Britain are actually hitting the sickest babies and frailest pensioners worst
Sweeping ConDem spending cuts are savaging public services – but nowhere are the wounds felt more deeply than within the NHS.
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02 May 2012
Outlet: Telegraph.co.uk
More and more of the long-term sick are being denied free medical care.
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Shirley Yeoman requires round-the-clock care. The grandmother of five is unable to move unaided, has problems swallowing and cannot survive without t
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02 May 2012
Outlet: Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk
Wednesday 02 May 2012
MPs: pay families to care for elderly
Families should be given state funding to care for their elderly relatives at
home, a group of Conservative MPs has said.
Ministers are drawing up
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01 May 2012
Outlet: PR Newswire UK - Online
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01 May 2012
Outlet: Caring Times - Online
Two reports published by The King’s Fund highlight how frail older people are being exposed to unacceptable standards of care and moved around from pillar to post in hospital because of a lack of continuity of care.
The first report draws attentio
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01 May 2012
Outlet: Communitycare.co.uk
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