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21/12/2011
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Fund to help older patients leave hospital
The government has launched a £170m funding boost for councils to help improve care and support for elderly people leaving hospital.
Each council will be given an average of £1 million to stop elderly patients occupying beds longer than necessary.
New Year must address scandal of inadequate social care
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has entered the debate on social care to call for the creation of a National Care Service, funded through general taxation and based on care needs rather than ability to pay.
The average Brit will spend over two hours glued to a phone or computer screen this Christmas Day
Nearly half of the 2,000 Brits questioned will check their emails on the big day, while time on Facebook, surfing the web and shopping online will feature heavily amid festivities.Almost half of elderly live alone
Almost half of pensioners live by themselves, according to a shock survey that has raised fresh concerns about older people being left alone at Christmas.
A poll by The Centre for the Modern Family found that many over-60s who do not live with anyone else have no relatives living close by, while some have no family at all.
Government sets up Working Group on frozen pensions
Consumer Focus response to the Payments Council research on the Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme
Closure of Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme has minimal impact on over 65s
Today (20 December), the Payments Council published independent research to show that the closure of the Cheque Guarantee Card Scheme has had little impact on the over 65s.Christmas at home?
A third of British mums don’t enjoy Christmas if they go to their children’s house for the day, it was revealed yesterday.Elderly patients need more care
Women facing pension trauma
Campaigners criticise Warm Home scheme for failing to reach those in need
Campaigners criticise Warm Home scheme for failing to reach those in need
Britain’s biggest pensioner organisation, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) has warned that the government’s new Warm Home Discount (WHD) scheme needs urgent reform to prevent hundreds of thousands of older people missing out on much needed support with their energy bills.
Share a joke and spread a little happiness this Christmas with Age UK
We all love that warm fuzzy feeling you get from sharing a laugh with others, and now it’s official: 91 per cent of people agree laughter infectious and 88 per cent agree it usually makes them feel happy to hear someone else laugh’.
Age UK releases these figures today in a bid to spread laughter and happiness as Christmas approaches.
Funding allows pioneering stroke charity to deliver its service over the Christmas period
InterAct Reading Service are pleased to announce that generous support from The Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation will enable the charity to deliver it’s award-winning service in ten hospitals over the Christmas period.
InterAct Reading Service was founded in 2000 on the basis of an innovative idea: using professional actors to deliver live, witty and inspiring short stories to people who have had a stroke.
Last chance to take responsibility to combat loneliness this Christmas
With only days before the last Royal Mail posting date for Christmas, the Campaign to End Loneliness is calling on us all to reach out to older neighbours or family who might be isolated or lonely over Christmas.
