15 Minutes of Care

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The following research might explain why the elderly who would rather remain at home are rushed into care homes instead.

Elderly and disabled 'struggling with 15-minute care visits'

Robbie Dinwoodie

Chief Scottish Political Correspondent

Friday 2 August 2013 The Herald.

ELDERLY and disabled people are routinely given home visits of as little as 15 minutes by care workers, who are themselves marginalised staff facing notorious zero hours contracts, according to research.

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ELDERLY and disabled people are routinely given home visits of as little as 15 minutes by care workers, who are themselves marginalised staff facing notorious zero hours contracts, according to research.

Where are the tramps?

I`m sure that many people are satisified that we do not see the same level of old smelly tramps on our streets, particularly in our shopping malls and high streets.  I used to walk by many an old man with his bunnet laid out for coppers and at other times when the mood took me I`ve thrown my coppers into his bunnet.  I don`t know why but old tramps tended not to be female.

It was in the Thatcher years after changes in the benefit system that I started to see young people begging on the streets. Their parents were no longer entitled to child allowance after their children left school at sixteen and so could no longer support them.

I`ve seen hostels shut down which used to house the tramps if they could get enought coppers together. So you would expect to see more of these unfortunates, not less. Oh, you`ll still see an odd one, no doubt about it.  And then they will disappear.

These are people either mentally ill, addicted, or fallen on hard times.  Given what I have just said I still ask the question:  Where have these people gone?

I know few people care, but somebody has got to ask the question.

Liverpool Care Pathway

Liverpool Pathway: A National Scandal

I commend you for the amount of work you have done and how stalwart you have been in pointing out the injustice done to your own mother. I want to assure you that you are not alone and your blogs do not go unnoticed.

You have shown that there is a systematic culling of the elderly that despite changes in name, such as LCP to something else, means that the culling goes on relentlessly.

I hope you have the strength to continue your work because the world needs you and your kind.


See Link for Palliative Care Scotland  http://www.palliativecarescotland.org.uk/

Reshaping Care for Older People

　
Information Booklet
According to the Scottish Government information booklet the population is changing and there is a growing proportion of elderly which is expected to rise to nearly two thirds of the total population by 2032. There will not be enough working people to afford the health costs and so things must change. One of the proposed changes will be to enable people to remain at home for as long as possible and to reduce admissions to hospitals. People need to agree to expect less from the NHS. One of the ways to achieve this is to provide information about what is possible and to help the older person to make informed choices/ decisions.

Are we really talking about the Liverpool Care Pathway here? Or what might be termed palliative care as opposed to curative care? So the older person will be persuaded to make decisions about Do not Resuscitate notices and preferred place of death, knowing that most elderly will choose home? That should reduce a large number of hospital admissions and help the elderly on their way.

Whatever it means, care will no longer be about going to the doctor, obtaining a diagnosis and treatment or rushing to the hospital in an emergency. That is a good way of reducing the problem of the elderly!