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Category Archives: Care Funding
Social Care Class Action on Bingo
Amid all the recent concern about the shortage of funding for older people needing care, “Social care ” hit the headlines today from a rather unusual source. This is The Times front page headline for the 10 May :- ” Stop … Continue reading
Posted in Care Funding, Residential Care
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2013 Headlines come hauntingly back.
One of the good things to come from de-cluttering is that it gives you new ideas for things to write about. A stored up sense of history. A temporarily buried time capsule. A more distant perspective … Continue reading
Posted in Care Funding, ELDERLY UK POLICY, N.H.S.
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Jeremy Corbyn’s Social Care — less
This is a post about politicians, pensioners and social care. It follows on from my blogs on the previous two Sunday’s which are entitled – “Older People are Clutter” and “Social Care Straws in the Wind”. The local election season … Continue reading
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Social Care Straws in the Wind
Social care for older people is in a mess. An almost permanent hotchpotch of indecision and political prevarication. The truth is nobody much cares about older voters until elections come around. The NHS does as little social care … Continue reading
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“Equity Release Conundrum”
This follows from my previous blog. Equity Release should be an answer to people’s prayers. Having saved all your working life to buy a house, you should have a nest egg if you need it later in life. But unfortunately … Continue reading
“Equity Release Unreleased”
I have long argued that most older people have the financial solution to a better old age in their own hands. (See my earlier blogs related to this by clicking on “EQUITY RELEASE” in the TAG CLOUD). People of 65 … Continue reading
“Cowardly Inaction”
There are now almost daily reports in the press about the failures of our social care system for older people. It is no longer a disaster waiting to happen, it is a catastrophe unfolding before our eyes:- Report after report … Continue reading
