Care Homes

Social care: do we need a cultural shift in how we treat the elderly?

Jay Burbank on September 8, 2021, 10:39 am

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This week a poll was conducted on the proposal being internally mooted by the Tory government to raise national insurance contributions to adequately fund social care. Unsurprisingly the mood wasn’t warm when people were sampled on whether they’d like to pay tax, although its not the kind of “never, never” attitude to taxation that a populist would expect: National insurance will be increased in order to fund social care reforms, it has been reported. Net support for this, by age …

We need to talk about Care Homes

thedissenter on November 18, 2020, 8:36 am

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Looking at the steadily rising numbers of Covid outbreaks in Care Homes through September it seemed as if ‘something’ was happening, and that ‘something’ wasn’t good. That ‘something’ is now beyond bad. There were a few learning points from the first wave of Covid earlier this year. The basic message of wash hands, face masks (sort of) and safe distance; Hands, Face, Space seemed a simple message, and the fundamentals underlying that message hold good and accepted by most that …