Care In The Community...
For all the criticism of care for people in the community and a lack of money coming from Government and local authorities and councils there are some very expensive places that look after people when you finally retire, become ill. Many struggle in their twilight years but if you are fortunate to have enough savings there are some amazing places still around taking up care of the vulnerable and able to make a profit.
When going to hospital last week the ambulance transport service called in at a massive site which called itself a retirement village. It had a bowling green, a lake with seats to sit outdoors etc...but the person who was picked up for his hospital visit at a spinal unit(he was in a wheelchair)he had a minder and she explained to another passenger that this place had...a block of apartments people could buy and live in, a nursing home, a residential home and another block where you live your life but have helpers coming in.
There is no way an ordinary member of the public could live there unless they have special rates and as many homes run by local authorities are continually being closed down and some private care homes are struggling too, social care is in a bit of mess to put it mildly.
And this story has now broken on the charity site run by the MacMillan Nurses which I think is a disgrace and as far as I know has not been reported much in the media. Who in their right mind would prefer to have cancer and all the treatment it entails to get benefits and possibly face death to take benefits and when you have a record of your treatment, a Dr and a Consultant to speak up for you(Oh, I forgot)many assessments these days will not allow you to submit information from your medical records and those treating you...
It ties in with an anecdote I may have mentioned before where I was in a supermarket and two women were talking and one was absolutely livid because her daughter is being treated for cancer, is still ill, not in remission and is being chased after to ask why she was not working.
Benefit Checks On People Having Chemotherapy
When going to hospital last week the ambulance transport service called in at a massive site which called itself a retirement village. It had a bowling green, a lake with seats to sit outdoors etc...but the person who was picked up for his hospital visit at a spinal unit(he was in a wheelchair)he had a minder and she explained to another passenger that this place had...a block of apartments people could buy and live in, a nursing home, a residential home and another block where you live your life but have helpers coming in.
There is no way an ordinary member of the public could live there unless they have special rates and as many homes run by local authorities are continually being closed down and some private care homes are struggling too, social care is in a bit of mess to put it mildly.
And this story has now broken on the charity site run by the MacMillan Nurses which I think is a disgrace and as far as I know has not been reported much in the media. Who in their right mind would prefer to have cancer and all the treatment it entails to get benefits and possibly face death to take benefits and when you have a record of your treatment, a Dr and a Consultant to speak up for you(Oh, I forgot)many assessments these days will not allow you to submit information from your medical records and those treating you...
It ties in with an anecdote I may have mentioned before where I was in a supermarket and two women were talking and one was absolutely livid because her daughter is being treated for cancer, is still ill, not in remission and is being chased after to ask why she was not working.
Benefit Checks On People Having Chemotherapy
posted by The Great Gildersleeve | 7:13 pm
2 Comments:
There's ordinary and there's
"ordinary" Gildy. Many oldies have had homes which they have paid for all their lives and sell them to be able to live in such a retirement place (some are even obliged to by family or froced to by circumstances (most IMHO would rather live in their own homes come-what-may)
Re the Macmillan thing I think they are proposals and before getting anywhere near "action" will be changed or dropped.
Span,
There's a lot of problems over the new benefit that is/has replaced Disability Living Allowence and others, some people are already caught up in the problem because the new benefit has already been introduced and new claimants are affected.
What they are doing next is going after those already on other benefits which are being stopped and switching them to this new serves all, changing the conditions of entitlement, how much you get(they reckon most benefits already awarded will be reduced by 20% soon)and it will be time limited for a year, even if your condition is variable and not likely to improve.
Of course you have to try to save money, I suppose you have to give support and try and make everyone feel a valued member of society and as though they can contribute but there are some real horror stories out there and some will need supporting.
I was going to add a link to such a story but have lost it.
I would hope the media might pick up on this though but lately they've missed so many stories. A proposal perhaps but the make up of Parliament and the numbers each party can call on means it probably will become law.
I agree about your point over the retirement homes etc...it kind of ties in with your post about the care of people.
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