Older people are stuck in hospital because there isn’t the social care support in place for them to leave, they are stuck in emergency departments waiting for a hospital bed to get the treatment they need, and they are stuck waiting for ambulances that don’t arrive because those same ambulances are stuck outside hospitals waiting to transfer patients according to Care Quality Commission chief executive Ian Trenholm and chair, Ian Dilks.
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See AllIf a care home resident receives local authority funded care, they will be allowed a weekly Personal Expenses Allowance. This is an amount of money disregarded from your income when paying care home f
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It is estimated that 1 in 6 older people are victims of abuse. That’s over 16% of our mothers, fathers, uncles, aunties, grandparents, friends and neighbours. Source: Hourglass
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The funding reforms which propose to place a cap on people’s liability for personal care were due to come into force in October 2023 but were delayed until October 2025. However, there are significant
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