Charity calls for urgent cash injection amid ‘alarming’ rise in emergency admissions as community health and social care decaysThousands of older people are ending up in hospital every year with potentially life-threatening infections because GPs and other community-based NHS services do too little to retain them well,a report from Age UK has warned.
Cuts to social care services in recent years beget left more than a million people over 65 in England struggling on their own to undertake at least one basic task that is vital to their wellbeing, such as washing, or getting dressed and feeding themselves. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com