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The latest section on the Community Care website aims to fulfil the career
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To launch the site we have reports on how to improve fire safety as a care
worker, a guide to reporting incidents to the Care Quality Commission and news
of how care cuts are taking their toll on the sector.
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Home care workers in Bristol are to take to the streets on 3 September to protest about privatisation of their jobs.
The council plans to move all its home care provision into the private sector,
which is hardly unusual, councils have been doing it for years. However,
against a backdrop of widespread budget cuts, job instability and decreasing
living standards, home care workers are understandably annoyed.
Unite say the changes will affect over 1,000 people's care.
The Department of Health is celebrating the success of its Dignity in
Care campaign which has so far attracted 10,000 Dignity Champions. The
department credits the rise in applications to be champions to the
involvement of Sir Michael Parkinson who has spearheaded the call for
volunteers.
Continue reading Sir Michael "Parky" Parkinson boosts dignity champions' numbers.
A couple that sent a letter to the BBC criticising assisted suicide laws have been found dead. They said in their letter to the broadcaster that they could no longer attain the quality of life they desired.
Continue reading Critics of laws on assisted suicide found dead.
The DH wanted to create a debate around its Green Paper on the future of adult social care and debate it has created - just not the one it was hoping for.
At the National Children and Adult the Services Conference in Harrogate, the famed double act of care service minister Phil Hope and David Behan, director general for social care at the DH, presented an update in which Behan admitted at large proportion of the 15,000 responses to the Green Paper were about proposals concerning attendance allowance and disability living allowance.
Continue reading Attendance allowance debate rumbles on.
by Bronagh Miskelly
Powered exoskeletons to help the elderly garden or climb stairs, robotic assistants and fridges that order the groceries. Not the usual fare for an Adass Spring Seminar, but in among discussion of personalisation, the forthcoming adult Green Paper (June in case you're wondering) and budgets we had a taste of futuristic imagery reminiscent of the Jetsons and other 1950s and 60s future-gazing.
Continue reading Adult services directors meet the Jetsons.
by Adam McCullochHere's a very perplexing case history for those of you in older people's services. I'd really like some comments, especially if you have ideas how things could have been handled differently or have any suggestions to make. You might even have had a similar experience. I really want to know how typical this is.
One thing I want to make clear is that the client involved here is definitely at the more 'awkward' end of the spectrum. She scores very highly in mental health tests and has convinced several occupational therapists and, apparently, psychiatrists of her ability to cope at home. She is lucid and persuasive:
Continue reading Dementia, NHS, elderly people, bed blocking: Judith's story.
Good news for those of you troubled by the national shortage of ballet dancers. Sorry, make that skilled ballet dancers. And if you who have been losing sleep over the lack of sheep shearers, you, too, may rejoice. A bunch of economists has recognised the pressing need to fill these skills gaps and is attempting to sort it. The Migration Advisory Committee today published a shortage occupations list for employers workers from non-EU countries, which will restrict the recruitment of workers from those countries to skilled jobs only.
Continue reading Say hello to an influx of sheep shearers and ballet dancers.
By Bronagh Miskelly
Anyone immersing themselves in the debate on the future of adult services, leading hopefully to a green paper next year, will be taken with the story of a 93-year-old first-time novelist who has taken residential care into her own hands.
Continue reading A novel approach to homes for the elderly.
by Adam McCulloch
An acquaintance of mine recently resigned from her job as a home care worker to begin a new life as a shelf stacker, working a shift in a hypermarket from 9pm to 3am. What could be worse than that, you might ask. Well, being a home care worker for one thing.
Continue reading The lot of a home care worker.
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