Sentences with phrase «care of elderly people»

A senior citizen health insurance plan takes care of elderly people over 60 years of age.

Assisted living homes that are saddled with the responsibility of taking care of elderly people and sick patients are one of the brands that have embraced the use of GPS tracking.

I have seen the future (of care of an elderly person with a chronic illness, after the Health and Social Care Bill)

Not exact matches

«So they went out and have a franchise that they feel has higher - end services and making sure good people are taking care of these elderly patients,» he says.

«It's almost never a big number, but if you're taking care of an ill elderly person who is a dependent, you could be doing a lot of driving around for medical purposes,» Smith said.

The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve.

A Christian care provider is urging the Church to do what it can to help elderly people in their homes, after figures showed hundreds of thousands of home care visits in the last two years barely lasted five minutes.

I care for the elderly and have also seen this when people die... the people I have taken care of cared more about the people they were leaving and seeing those who had died before them, than any need to be told God was there... people with faith KNOW He is

In three years (2007 - 2010) the number of people caring for an elderly person went from 40 mil to 60 mil.

What logical, caring person can support slavery, discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, discrimination against the handicapped, beating children, beating elderly female slaves without punishment, supporting a god who would let the family of his greatest supporter be killed to WIN A BET, etc..?

Choose to be people of God when it suits you, not when it comes to caring for the poor, elderly and children.

That said, what I really, really despise, is the TV Evangelists that would ask for more and more money, and guilt it out of people... and of course, the most vunerable are the elderly or sick shut - ins that often would send their old age pension, and barely eat, thinking that they were doing good... and the TV Evangelists could care less that they were literally taking food money from them.

Also, some people have elderly parents they need to care for of and family leave is desperately needed to handle that responsibility.

Compared with singles, married people are less likely to visit relatives, less likely to take care of elderly parents and less involved with neighbors and friends.

Actually, most of the chores you mention are also performed by single people or couples without kids (especially the care of elderly parents).

Have you worked as a special education teacher, volunteered at a senior center, taken care of an elderly relative acted as the go - to person for your friend with a special needs child?

We only have to imagine ourselves as a newborn — or as helpless as one — to see why responding with sensitivity is one of the most important skills we can cultivate in ourselves, in our children, in the people who care for our elderly, our sick, our disabled, our tiniest, our most vulnerable.

Yes, I think it does, and it pools risk, and increases the citizenship opportunities of the children of elderly people currently having to sell their homes and assets to by elderly care.

And while we may picture elderly people struggling to understand the technology created to assist with end of life care, Doteveryone's digital skills initiative could help plug the gaps.

«The fact that over half of hospitals were falling short to some degree in the basic care they provided to elderly people is truly alarming and deeply disappointing,» CQC chair Dame Jo Williams said.

They pointed out that people in the community rely on a network of family, neighbours and friends to help one another out with, for example, childcare and care of the elderly.

A # 3.7 k tax on a # 400,000 profit (less than 1 % overall) sounds reasonable to me — and the homes of most elderly people in care are typically sold well within three years.

Means - testing of the winter fuel payment and the controversial «dementia tax», where the Government planned to make elderly people pay for their own social care, did not make the Speech either.

«The Human Rights Act and the European convention on human rights have been instrumental in preventing local authorities from snooping on law - abiding families, in removing innocent people from the national DNA database, in preventing rapists from cross-examining their victims in court, in defending the rights of parents to have a say in the medical treatment of their children, in holding local authorities to account where they have failed to protect children from abuse, in protecting the anonymity of journalists» sources, and in upholding the rights of elderly married couples to be cared for together in care homes.»

The scheme both emulates and undermines the recommendations of the Dilnot report, which called for a system for the elderly where the total cost of care would be capped to # 35,000 and support to old people should be extended to those with assets of # 100,000, up from the current limit of # 23,250.

In the London Borough of Southwark, a new social enterprise called Southwark Circle is delivering vastly improved care services for less money designed by elderly people for elderly people using local social networks to bring real improvements to people's lives.

I am not arguing that the elderly, the disabled, etc., need what reasonable people can agree is a basic decent level of health care appropriate to our society and the state of our economy which keeps them alive, but you are advocating giving free health care that exceeds what someone who pays thousands of dollars in insurance premiums every year can receive!

«That would save money because good social care helps elderly people stay at home when they want to be, instead of in hospital when they don't.

The importance of compassion and a respect for dignity are often underrated characteristics in care for elderly people, say experts.

What you have to ask yourself right now is whether you are prepared to sacrifice lives - the lives of children being raised in poverty, the lives of patients being left to die on trolleys in hospital corridors, the lives of disabled people who are cut off and abandoned to their fates, the lives of the elderly left shivering at home or shamefully neglected in profit - driven care homes.

Some are elderly, some incontinent, some can't feed themselves, some need the care of two staff people around the clock, Gunther said.

The list of charities facing funding cuts includes 112 adult care charities, 142 elderly - related charities, 382 children's and young people - related charities and 151 disability - related charities.

The CBO says the Senate bill could increase the number of people without health insurance nationally to 22 million by 2026 and could triple health care premiums for the elderly by 2026.

About 880,000 New Yorkers, or 10 percent of the work force, make up to $ 8.50 an hour washing dishes and clothes, flipping and serving burgers, selling shoes and jeans, cleaning homes and offices, milking cows and picking crops and taking care of sick and elderly people in their own homes.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Financial elder abuse is on the rise and tragically the elderly are often taken advantage of by the very people hired to care for them.

The long run affordability of the welfare state depends above all else on a broad tax base generated by full employment of people of working age, which in turn is dependent on collective services for caring for children, the disabled and the elderly, enabling men and women to work as they want.

Analysis by Politics.co.uk of council reports from across England shows that many have been frantically trying to cut spending during the year by cutting high - cost care packages for elderly and disabled people and holding open staff vacancies.

As Director, Ms. Dolan has been responsible for oversight of the Office for the Aging and its mission of planning, coordinating and providing an array of community based services to the elderly and persons who require assistance in the long - term care system, in an effort to promote independence, dignity and quality of life.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, praised the government for listening and taking up issues that matter to people such as care for the elderly, curbs on risk - taking and sharp practices by the financial sector, poverty and the environment.

Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison, said the Queen's speech showed the government «had listened» and taken up issues that mattered to people, such as poverty, the environment, care for the elderly, and curbs on risk - taking and sharp practices by the financial sector.

And they warned it is inevitable that councils would have to cut back on social care — potentially hitting thousands of elderly people who rely on it.

In recognition of pressures on social services, grant funding for social care will be increased by an additional # 1bn by the fourth year of the spending review, and a further # 1bn for social care to be provided through the NHS to support joint working with councils «so that elderly people do not continue to fall through the crack between two systems».

«At least from a demographic perspective, there are enough people in the productive age groups to distribute the work to take care of those who need it, either children or the elderly,» he said.

The project, which includes artificial intelligence and robotics experts at the University of Lincoln's School of Computer Science, will include a large - scale evaluation where robots will be deployed within the extra-care homes of LACE Housing Association in the UK, to care homes in Greece and to elderly people's own homes in Poland, for one year.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may put elderly people at greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

«As an organization of health care providers and researchers, we know firsthand the toll air pollution takes on people's health, particularly the young and elderly,» said ATS President David Gozal, MD, MBA, Herbert T. Abelson professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago.

On the basis of the current studies as well as previous reports on the use of intradermal immunization against influenza, hepatitis B, rabies, and other infectious diseases, 2,3,8 it is becoming clear that use of the intradermal route may at least partially overcome the relatively poor influenza - specific immune responses seen in certain at - risk populations, particularly the elderly, in whom the immune response in general is known to diminish with age.9 Moreover, in times of shortage, the dose - sparing intradermal approach might be particularly well suited to the young, healthy persons included in the CDC's high - priority group for vaccination, such as health care workers, as well as to younger, otherwise healthy populations in general.

«With a rapidly ageing society, an increasing number of elderly people require care after suffering from stroke, and other - age related disabilities.

Babysitters and nurses Number one stressful job has to deal with taking care of elderly and sick people and looking after kids.

It is necessary to add that it is not customary in Russia that old people in need of medical care stay in institution for elderly care.