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Angel Blessings for Decembers run up to Christmas

Save the Attendance and Disability Allowance

Gordon Brown has stolen the life time savings from elderly people who paid millions of pounds into pension funds to ensure provision for their security in old age and there is no way any government can ever pay it back. Now in order to set up a new National Care Service which we do not even know what the government plan for a new National Care Service would involve Gordon Brown is planning to take away vital benefits from the elderly and disabled which means pensioners will lose around £60 per week which could be as much as a quarter of their income, again he plans to snatch benefits back from 2.4 million vulnerable pensioners. Anne Begg labour MP and other Labour back benchers are fighting to save the Attendance Allowance, it is vital that the two National Disability benefits remain to give people voluntary control over their money for their individual needs. In the NHS we are not means tested and definitely should not be in the National Care Service. Tory Health Spokesman Andrew Lansley said he would keep the two allowances, he added “as ever with Gordon Brown you have to read the small print”
Please read the full article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229366/Disabled-Labour-MP-heads-campaign-Government-plan-end-benefits-needy-pensioners.html

Since I began my website carers-healingspur several years ago bringing attention to the plight of carers, the elderly, and disabled, little or nothing has been done in fact it has got increasingly worse. Please do all you can to encourage sensible and adequate changes and support for we all age and this situation is what can easily happen to any one of us. This government made sure they were secure as many feathered their nest knowing they bolted the door after the horse had flown now it will be an almighty task to catch the horse. People should now be strong and remember the strategy that to debilitate the people makes them easier to manipulate and do not allow this to happen.

http://www.carers-healingspur.co.uk/

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Children in Need 2009

Just a reminder to open our hearts and give generously this year to the desperate, and poor children of the world, and give thanks to all those celebrities and stars who are devoting time and care also to this much needed cause.
Please do not forget that Christmas is coming, link below also how to donate toys.

Children in Need Donations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey/donate/

How to donate toys to Children in Need

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_10124_donate-toys-children.html?cr=1

Children in Need video



Take That Children in Need 2009-11-19

Care for the Dying

Extremely important to read is that experts claim doctors and nurses need more training in how to care for people who are dying because wrong diagnosis can result in withdrawal of food and fluids when they might otherwise survive. Shockingly the decision do not resuscitate is falling to trainee junior doctors with no countersigning by consultants, in one in six cases where patients were not expected to survive there was no evidence of any discussion between doctors and the patients relatives about whether treatment would be limited.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1225323/How-junior-doctors-signing-resuscitate-forms-dying-patients.html

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Rotten Double Standards

It is disgusting that UK MP’s should be allowed to employ family members as secretaries, cleaners, gardeners etc and have their expenses for them paid while carers who are caring for disabled relatives at home are expected to do so for a pittance or nothing at all, do these MP’s realise that although thousands of carers are supposed to be retired and having struggled to save all their lives that these carers some elderly who have fought for their country not only have nursing responsibilities but all the above mentioned commitments to pay for too, and thousands cannot afford it and are struggling to do them single handed.

Instead of bringing in outsiders why not train and pay family members many who have lost their jobs during this recession or have been forced to give up their jobs because of tragic circumstances, they would be compassionate and willing, able to keep their livelihood, and pay taxes. All worn out carers are still working out of love and being taken advantage of, when is what they are doing going to be considered hard work and be paid for accordingly, they have saved the government Billions and still are.

MP’s now want a £40,000 per annum increase in their salary while earning 50 times more than constituents just for jobs on the side what a disgrace they are, if they have no conscience and do not care themselves why expect those in society to care, look around and see what their work and example has helped cause.

Please read the Daily Mail article link today and read what work and pensions minister Helen Goodman who earns £96,167 has to say

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1225557/Women-allowed-claim-cleaning-Female-MP-says-expenses-crackdown-sexist.html

alsohttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211481/MPs-earn-50-times-constituents--just-jobs-side.html

Poor Provision of Mental Health Services

There is huge concern about poor provision of mental health services for older patients. This is also of enormous concern for anyone of any age, as reported in the Daily mail Dr Ian Thomson MA (psychology) MB BCh (Oxon) FRC Psych, Yarmouth Isle of Wight said “This is a question of funding Health Authorities have used the closure of mental hospitals to rob the mental illness budget for more popular specialities. Where resources are depleted the psychiatrist becomes reluctant to accept responsibility for a personality disordered person by asserting that their problems are not mental illness, the buck is passed to society”

Anyone who is a carer at home for a loved one with a mental illness know this to be true and are bearing the burden of being their loved ones mental nurse too many times without adequate training and help, many are elderly and supposedly retired doing this extremely difficult task, it is a utterly unfair to thrust this upon the vulnerable people in society.

http://www.carers-healingspur.co.uk/

NHS Age Discrimination Banned by Law

Some doctors think that elderly people past a certain age are not worth bothering about and many of the elderly have been missing out on health advice, scans, and drugs. Now ageism in the NHS is to be outlawed giving the elderly the same consideration as younger patients. Ministers have been criticised for not including the NHS and social care in the general age discrimination law due to come into force in 2012. Earlier this year a survey found almost half doctors caring for older patients believed the NHS is institutionally ageist, as many as seven out of ten specialists say the elderly are more likely to struggle to get conditions diagnosed than younger patients. Now it is to become illegal for any difference to be made on age grounds. This is good news, fairer humane consideration for the elderly as it is how we treat our elderly that shows what kind of country we are. Having NHS discrimination banned by law means that those who believe they are victims will be able to go to the courts.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222077/NHS-bans-ageism-Elderly-patients-receive-attention-young.html

Considering the catalogue of mistakes made in prescription errors affecting 50 percent of pensioners in care homes, and the failure of some GP’s to monitor medication of care home residents which could be caused by many factors is something that needs to be changed for the better sooner rather than later. Please read Link below

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1217038/Potentially-fatal-prescription-errors-hit-half-care-home-residents.html

The terrible and tragic story of the 76yr old grandfather Jack Jones who beat cancer and was told the disease had returned and after misdiagnosis had his life support taken away by having his food and fluids withdrawn is a tragic example of what must not ever happen again.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1220221/ROS-COWARD-If-proof-folly-doctors-playing-God-mans-barbaric-death.html