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Tag Archives: Carers’ Benefits
Healthy Caring Guide (NHS England / PHE / Age UK / Carers Trust / Carers UK)
Summary NHS England, Public Health England (PHE) and partners (Age UK, the Carers Trust and Carers UK) have released a healthy caring guide, which provides practical advice and information to carers (particularly older carers). Full Text Link Reference New guide gives … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS England, Patient Information, Person-Centred Care, Personalisation, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 5YFV: NHS Five Year Forward View, Adult Carers in England: Quality of Life, Adult Social Care, Ageing Population, Ageing Population Carer Support, Burden on Caregivers, Care in an Ageing Society, Caregiver Assessments, Caregiver Burden, Caregivers, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Awareness, Carer Experience, Carer Fatigue, Carer Isolation, Carer Organisations, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Needs, Carer’s Perspective, Carers Strategy, Carers Trust, Carers UK Adviceline, Carers' Assessments, Carers’ Benefits, Carers’ Health and Wellbeing, Caring and Family Finances, Caring into Later Life, CCG Improvement and Assurance Framework for 2016-17, Community Care Assessments, Community-Based Services, Coping With Stress, Emily Holzhausen: Director of Policy and Public Affairs at Carers UK, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Healthy Caring Guide, Impact of Caring on Carers, Improving Lives of Carers, Informal Caregiving, Informal Carers, Information Needs of Carers, Information Technology, Maintaining Relationships, Mental Health Needs of Carers, Mobile Technology, Needs of Carers, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, PHE: Public Health England, Public Health England (PHE), Social Media, Support for Carers, Sustainable Caring, Unpaid Caregivers (Carers), Unpaid Carers, Use of Social Media, Valuing Carers
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Dementia Friends Campaign Refreshed (BBC News / Department of Health / Dementia Challenge / Dementia Friends / Public Health England)
Summary Public Health England (PHE) and the Alzheimer’s Society have launched a joint campaign to encourage people to become Dementia Friends. Employers are encouraged to make it easier for people with early dementia to remain in employment and to support … Continue reading
Posted in Alzheimer's Society, BBC News, Charitable Bodies, Community Care, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, Models of Dementia Care, National, Patient Care Pathway, Practical Advice, Public Health England, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Access to Respite Care and Breaks, Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden, Awareness, Awareness Raising, BBC Health News, Campaigning, Caregivers, Carers, Carers for People with Dementia, Carers’ Benefits, Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), Challenge on Dementia (David Cameron), Costs to Business of Dementia, Dementia Awareness Campaign, Dementia Challenge, Dementia Friendly Communities Champion Group, Dementia Friends, Dementia Friends Campaign, Dementia Friends Champions, Dementia Friends Programme, Dementia-Friendly Communities, Dementia-Friendly Employers, Dementia-Friendly Workplaces, Department of Health Dementia Challenge, Eamonn Holmes, Family Caregivers, Family Carers, Fiona Phillips, Flexible Hours for Carers, Flexible Working Arrangements, Gina Shaw: Former Nurse, Impact of Caring on Carers, Leighton Baines, Lily Allen, Little Book of Friendship, Meera Syal, Michael Vaughan, Paul O’Grady, PHE: Public Health England, Preventing Loneliness, Prime Minister's Challenge on Dementia, Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge, Public Health England (PHE), Ray Winstone, Respite Care, Ruth Jones, Ruth Langsford, Simon Pegg, Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Terry Pratchett, Staff Awareness, Supporting Caregivers, Supporting Working Carers, User Involvement, Voluntary and Community Organisations, Volunteering, Volunteers, Working Carers, Working for Longer
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Leicester City Council / Shared Lives Foster Placements for Elderly People (BBC News)
Summary A fostering scheme for the elderly is being introduced in Leicester, whereby families will be paid to take elderly people into their homes. Carers will be paid £224 a week (roughly four times the amount unpaid carers on basic Carer’s … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, BBC News, Community Care, For Carers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Communities, BBC Health News, Befriending, Building Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Care for People with Dementia in the Community, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care in the Community, Caregiving (Carers), Carer Resilience, Carer Support, Carer Support Services, Carer's Allowance, Carer's Needs, Carers, Carers’ Benefits, Commissioning for Carers, Community, Community Care, Community Life, Community Networks, Community Perspective, Creating Dementia Friendly Environments, Dementia and Age-Friendly Neighbourhoods, Dementia Friends, Fostering, Fostering Schemes for Elderly People, Friends, Friendship, Good Neighbourliness, Inclusion, Informal Networks, Leicester City Council, Leicestershire, Leicestershire Age UK, Loneliness, Loneliness and Social Isolation, Neighbourliness, Peer Support Networks, Preventing Loneliness, Proposals to Improve Care for Vulnerable Older People, Protecting Vulnerable People, Shared Lives Plus, Shared Lives Plus: UK, Social Inclusion, Social Networks, Vulnerable Older People, Winter Friends
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Two Thirds Feel Older People are Treated Poorly by Government Over Care (Age UK)
Summary In the context of the Government’s spending review 2015/16, Age UK / Ipsos Mori conducted a poll into the issues about which the over-50s have concerns regarding how the Government is perceived as treating older people. Over half (56%) of survey respondents said that they … Continue reading
Posted in Age UK, Carers UK, Charitable Bodies, In the News, National, NHS Evidence, Quick Insights, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Funding, Adult Social Care Services, Carers’ Benefits, Community Care, Community-Based Services, Council Tax, Domiciliary Care, Financial Issues, Financial Pressures, Government Spending Review (UK 2013), Health and Social Care Integration Fund, Health and Social Care Services, Home and Community Care Services, Home Care, Integrated Services, Ipsos Mori, Joint Commissioning Plan Between NHS and Councils for Social Care, Local Authorities (LAs), NHS Budget, NHS Funding, NHS Spending, Sir David Nicholson, Spending Review 2015/16
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