Dear Gang,
If Storm is spitting feathers and I'm spitting chips, then it looks like we've got crispy chicken and french fries all simmering in a hot vat of boiling oil, ready to pour on any any bureaucrat that comes for dinner!
Right! It's pretty well apparent that WE are not happy with the SS, nor are we particularly enamoured of any Private Care Agencies, Nursing Homes or Nursing Unskillaries who can't take blood, but still manage to get their £ of flesh without any worries.....
I think it's time to HIT THE MEDIA in a big way, guys...! Stephen Ladyman is not a great deal of use to anyone, emails to MP's don't seem to getting us too much further and has anyone yet had an answer from their letters that I posted to Old Tone in August? I certainly haven't.
As much as it is very comforting to air our views on TP every day [and thank God we have a forum in which to do so], BUT it still doesn't get us any further forward really. We are preaching to the converted! We ALL know the problems, we ALL live them daily after all....
What I think we need is a very big National Media blitz. I'm not thinking about two paragraphs on Page 47 of the Daily Mail, but a series of articles aimed at getting the message out and delivered. Panorama did a wonderful job, but it's all gone quiet again now.
Is anyone interested in collaborating on this? Just off the top of my head, I think we need a series of articles probably along the lines of:
Living with Dementia and AD
A Day in the Life of a Carer
Caring for a Spouse with AD/Dementia
Caring with Parents who have AD
Respite, Nursing Homes and Community Care
Who Cares for the Carers?
If anyone is interested, then let's see what we can come up with.
Let's see if we can do something positive. More and more people seem to be suffering with AD, which means more and more carers sooner or later. If the whole country is at home looking after their loved ones, then there will be a bigger crisis than now. Mind you, it should solve the unemployment problem. No doubt the Goverment will claim this as a victory, whilst refusing to pay benefits to the unpaid and unappreciated masses.
Jude
If Storm is spitting feathers and I'm spitting chips, then it looks like we've got crispy chicken and french fries all simmering in a hot vat of boiling oil, ready to pour on any any bureaucrat that comes for dinner!
Right! It's pretty well apparent that WE are not happy with the SS, nor are we particularly enamoured of any Private Care Agencies, Nursing Homes or Nursing Unskillaries who can't take blood, but still manage to get their £ of flesh without any worries.....
I think it's time to HIT THE MEDIA in a big way, guys...! Stephen Ladyman is not a great deal of use to anyone, emails to MP's don't seem to getting us too much further and has anyone yet had an answer from their letters that I posted to Old Tone in August? I certainly haven't.
As much as it is very comforting to air our views on TP every day [and thank God we have a forum in which to do so], BUT it still doesn't get us any further forward really. We are preaching to the converted! We ALL know the problems, we ALL live them daily after all....
What I think we need is a very big National Media blitz. I'm not thinking about two paragraphs on Page 47 of the Daily Mail, but a series of articles aimed at getting the message out and delivered. Panorama did a wonderful job, but it's all gone quiet again now.
Is anyone interested in collaborating on this? Just off the top of my head, I think we need a series of articles probably along the lines of:
Living with Dementia and AD
A Day in the Life of a Carer
Caring for a Spouse with AD/Dementia
Caring with Parents who have AD
Respite, Nursing Homes and Community Care
Who Cares for the Carers?
If anyone is interested, then let's see what we can come up with.
Let's see if we can do something positive. More and more people seem to be suffering with AD, which means more and more carers sooner or later. If the whole country is at home looking after their loved ones, then there will be a bigger crisis than now. Mind you, it should solve the unemployment problem. No doubt the Goverment will claim this as a victory, whilst refusing to pay benefits to the unpaid and unappreciated masses.
Jude