Category Archives: Residential Care

Dementia in the News again

Posted on July 24, 2019 by john graham

The summer is a quiet time for news and Brexit seems to be at a standstill.   So  The Daily Mail has polished up some old news and started a campaign about the injustice of people having to sell their … Continue reading →

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High Price of Dignity

Posted on November 25, 2018 by john graham

Following on from my last weeks post about the under funding of Residential Care comes a contrasting viewpoint.    A headline in The Guardian —— “Scandal Of UK’s worst Care Homes Revealed”. The article reports on an investigation carried out by the … Continue reading →

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Dignity be damned again !

Posted on November 18, 2018 by john graham

Care homes are again in the headlines.     The Daily Mail has once again raised its campaigning banner “Dignity for the Elderly”.  It’s been a very long and wholly ineffective effort.   It started way back in 2010, when … Continue reading →

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Care Home Time Bomb!

Posted on June 10, 2018 by john graham

The title of this blog is taken from the front page headlines of the Daily Express on Tuesday 5th June 2018.   It’s a report from an investigation carried out by the GMB Union which investigated the level of arrears of … Continue reading →

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Do we need more Care Homes ?

Posted on August 27, 2017 by john graham

A recent report by Newcastle University looked at the forecast levels of frailty in the older population and reached the conclusion that there is a need for 71,000 new care home places in the next 10 years. I don’t doubt … Continue reading →

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Care Home Confidence ?

Posted on August 24, 2017 by john graham

At a time when lots of Care Home companies are on the verge of collapse and many homes have already closed, one company is moving in the opposite direction.      HC- One is company that grew out of the … Continue reading →

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Care Home Calamity

Posted on August 20, 2017 by john graham

“40% of Care homes are not fit for purpose” screams the front page of the Daily Mail on August 7th 2017 No news there then.     In fact I am surprised the figure is so low.  Most care homes … Continue reading →

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Social care confusion

Posted on May 28, 2017 by john graham

I have argued in this blog for years that the only way to release significantnt resources to pay for good quality social for older people is to unlock the equity many older people have in their houses and then expect … Continue reading →

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Social Care Class Action on Bingo

Posted on May 14, 2017 by john graham

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 →

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“Inaction Turns To Care Home Crisis”

Posted on November 6, 2016 by john graham

Many of the themes in my blog seem to repeat themselves year after year.  None more so that the subject of residential care, which I started writing about in 2010 shortly after I had retired from the ExtraCare Charitable Trust. … Continue reading →

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