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Care providers must up their game in light of continued care cuts

March 27th, 2014 by admin

Continued economic concerns as well as ongoing demographic challenges mean that changes like the recent announcement by Suffolk County Council, where adult social care funding is being cut in actual terms, are likely to be increasingly more common. We believe that over the course of the next generat Read More

Recent press coverage of Penrose Care highlights its commitment to ethical care at home

March 27th, 2014 by admin

Since the fourth quarter of 2013, Penrose Care has experienced a marked increase in press coverage for our pioneering efforts in ethics in social care. Such press coverage is in of itself a testament to a component of our ethos that it is not sufficient to just be ethical within our own remit, but Read More

Dementia and the G8

March 27th, 2014 by admin

We usually associate G8 conferences with rallies against globalization and rescue packages for the world economy. Yet today world leaders have committed to furthering international efforts to fight dementia- one of the greatest ticking time bombs threatening our society. The UK government alone will Read More

The case for the Living Wage in homecare

March 26th, 2014 by admin

The Guardian Social Care Network and Department of Health’s recent homecare survey (1) found that one of the three key factors of offering good homecare was “friendly, respectful, ca Read More

LGA proposes national old age social care loan scheme

March 26th, 2014 by admin

Penrose Care is please to see a move in government policy the recognises both the desire of the elderly to stay in their homes and the need for care to be adequately funded. The deferred loan scheme (1) for social care loans proposed by the Local Government Association (LGA) offers a pragmatic so Read More

Concern over conditions for Home Care workers

March 26th, 2014 by admin

At Penrose Care we have long been concerned that poor conditions for home care support workers are in large part responsible for driving down standards of care for some of the most vulnerable members of our society. It is for this reason that we have actively worked with Citizens UK and the Living W Read More

Quality in Elderly Care Article Series, Article 1: Introduction

March 26th, 2014 by admin

The UK is not alone in experiencing the challenges of providing for an increasingly aged population. In 2012 the Office for National Statistics report on Pension Trends and a changing population^1 sharply drew our attention to the demographic challenges of the next 50 years. In 2010 17% of the UK Read More

Newly released data highlights social care funding crisis in north west London

March 26th, 2014 by admin

Yesterday, 31 Jan 2013, the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) published the fiscal year 2011-12 (fiscal year ending March 31, 2012) data on England’s expenditure and unit costs in providing personal social care services and it reveals a social care sector in north west London w Read More

Creating a more ‘decent society’ for the elderly

March 26th, 2014 by admin

Government proposals to limit the contribution of individuals to their care costs to £75,000 over a lifetime are promising. More interesting was MP Norman Lamb's proposal to create a more 'decent' society. By this he meant one in which the local community is engaged and supports the elderly living Read More

Improving healthcare outcomes for the elderly

March 26th, 2014 by admin

Professor Karol Sikora of the University of Buckingham believes that part of the reason that the elderly receive less treatment is due to generational differences in deference towards professionals. In this short video he advocates one simple method to help improve the quality of care you receive. A Read More