True justice

[1948NHSBaby]

Yvonne Hossack, solicitor who works pro bono tirelessly to aid the sick, vulnerable, frail and elderly etc to the extent that councils hounded her for 'upsetting their apple cart' of care home closures and other detrimental actions against this group of people that seem to bear the brunt of any cuts and charges in the modern market/profit led world we now live in.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...lawyer-who-protected-the-elderly-1790022.html

Other items in the news yesterday, all topics being discussed in the main forum recently, i.e. the cost of care home places, top ups and the fact that self funders subsidise council placed and funded residents.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8262436.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...atives-forced-to-top-up-for-old-age-care.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/18/andy-burnham-old-age-healthcare-timebomb

 

[JPG1]

Thanks for your post in the’ Raising awareness’ section.

Raising awareness of all facets of dementia and care, regardless of whether that care is connected with dementia or not, is perhaps the most important of all.

Not always recognised as such, but without that awareness ... there can be no care.

I had read about Yvonne Hossack a while back, but hadn’t followed her story through. Thanks for doing that.

The issue that I’ve been involved with is the removal of on-site 24/7 wardens from several local sheltered housing complexes. (Nothing to do with my own circumstances in the world of dementia, but just something that I was able to become involved with.) And that was the very reason many people moved into those complexes – the promise that there would be a reachable warden (not the same one, 24/7, but A Warden). To have that removed from you, is a breach of contract.

So, 1948NHSBaby, I only wish that we had the equivalent of Yvonne Hossack where we are.

As for the other links you posted, they are equally important in the raising of awareness. I’ve got a few questions of my own to ask of some of the ‘reported words’, but they can’t be answered here, so I’ll take them elsewhere.

Money and funding issues are not the only areas where awareness needs to be raised, as Yvonne Hossack knows.

There is little point in full funding unless that fully-funded care is quality care.

There is little point in paying a fortune for care, as a self-funder, unless that care is quality care.

There is little point in local authorities promising any one of us care unless that care is quality care.

So whether self-funded, partially self-funded, or local authority funded care ... unless that care is good, totally decent, 100% acceptable quality care ... then it will forever cease to be called care, in my world.

Thanks for making me think further, before adding to my blog. I knew there was something missing, before I reached the next post, and I don't think I will keep my own blog-promise.

But what the heck .... nothing ventured, nothing gained. Look before you leap ... or even ... promise anything in a blog, and then think again!!! That's what I'm doing. Just so that I don't miss anything.

Boring, maybe ... but you never know.



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