c***@gmail.com
2012-07-08 12:11:09 UTC
You do not get time in your busy life to think about global or national problems but I do – and one problem facing the world is a demographic imbalance with an ever growing elderly population dependent on a small population of youngsters.
As far as I can see, the only responsible attitude to take in this situation is to devise a method to keep people active and engaged in their own home for as long as possible. the self-interests of the care lobby is pitted against this approach and we have come across people who claim to support our approach but only so that they can franchise their home help services taking whatever capital there is for themselves. People with elderly parents want to do the best they can for them. But they have the pressures of their own distant lives to concern them – banging a relative in a home is an expedient solution, and poor care results when unqualified staff, grappling with a minute food budget get away with whatever they can behind closed doors. Cover ups are in everyone's interest, and we will not mention he food if you forget about the misdiagnosis. Official complaints procedures are tortuous, nothing happens except that the practice manager is told. All of these things are resolved by elderpools. Community groups looking out for each other; part gossip shop, part neighbourhood watch, part home help agency linking local scout groups with those needing a young agile pair of hands, a book club, a buying circle, a complaint home, an advisor & a showcase for what works in the big society of the coalition government's dreams:http://goo.gl/5ziDu. If such a thing could be made to work it should be made to work. There is now a Google group called Elderpools and everyone is invited.
As far as I can see, the only responsible attitude to take in this situation is to devise a method to keep people active and engaged in their own home for as long as possible. the self-interests of the care lobby is pitted against this approach and we have come across people who claim to support our approach but only so that they can franchise their home help services taking whatever capital there is for themselves. People with elderly parents want to do the best they can for them. But they have the pressures of their own distant lives to concern them – banging a relative in a home is an expedient solution, and poor care results when unqualified staff, grappling with a minute food budget get away with whatever they can behind closed doors. Cover ups are in everyone's interest, and we will not mention he food if you forget about the misdiagnosis. Official complaints procedures are tortuous, nothing happens except that the practice manager is told. All of these things are resolved by elderpools. Community groups looking out for each other; part gossip shop, part neighbourhood watch, part home help agency linking local scout groups with those needing a young agile pair of hands, a book club, a buying circle, a complaint home, an advisor & a showcase for what works in the big society of the coalition government's dreams:http://goo.gl/5ziDu. If such a thing could be made to work it should be made to work. There is now a Google group called Elderpools and everyone is invited.