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  • End to age discrimination

    The government has bowed to pressure from the likes of Help the Aged and promised to ban age discrimination in the provision of goods and services, in a forthcoming Equality Bill . This could have significant implications for social care and mental health, where it has long been assumed that services...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 06-26-2008

  • Creating home at home

    Yesterday, one of the plenary sessions I attended at Community Care Live was a discussion of an initiative by Help the Aged called My Home Life. As it says on the site, it is ‘a new initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of those who are living, dying, visiting and working in care homes...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008

  • Budget

    What do people make of the today's Budget ? The big debate among campaigners is on child poverty, where the government committed around £1bn of the £3.4bn deemed necessary to hit its target of halving child poverty by 2010. The core child poverty campaign groups have strongly welcomed this, saying...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Mithran on 03-12-2008

  • Care home evictions

    Older people's charities are claiming that a high number of care home residents are being evicted unnecessarily - because they, or often their relatives, complain about the quality of care, for instance. The reason this is possible, Help the Aged and Age Concern argue, is the Human Rights Act 1998...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 01-24-2008
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