Covid is causing the biggest rise in mental illness since World War II. Here’s what we can do to help ourselves, and others.
When we stop talking to God the Holy Spirit takes over for us.
For some weeks at the height of the Covid pandemic the elderly were denied hospital treatment, according to an investigation by the Sunday Times. The NHS has issued a rebuttal.
If a physical condition is the reason you need care, whether in your own home or in a care home, the NHS has a fund to pay for it. It’s called Continuing Healthcare. But they have refused, in tens of thousands of cases. Now the former head of the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent Programme aims to launch a $5bn lawsuit to make them pay, and refund those they refused.
Keeping frail elderly residents safe from Covid is not abuse and cruelty, as a national newspaper claims. Care homes are going many extra miles to keep them happy and occupied.
Looking after an ‘indifferent’ parent with dementia who was cold to you as a child is tough.
Covid-19 tells us that we need to break the conspiracy of silence about dying and death. If we believe that ‘death has lost its sting’ why are we silent?
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has said that carers looking after the elderly are critical. So let’s now see a proper social care plan with sustainable funding.
In the corona-virus isolation and fear, a bedrock of human kindness is rising to the occasion
Dying is a spiritual event, and the last days can be lived more intensively than at any other time.
Stories about the few bad care homes fuel dread and myths that obscure the truth – care homes all over the country are giving loving, individual care to their residents.
Government minister completely out of touch with reality when he says it’s not the government’s job to look after people’s parents in care homes.
A word we hear often today is that someone is ‘broken’. They’ve experienced a catastrophe, perhaps a betrayal, a bereavement, or something else that has left them heartbroken, feeling shattered and worthless.
good end of life care allows the person to flower, even though the stem of their life has been cut
Negative emotions have detrimental physical affects, especially if you are caring for a loved one with dementia
Christmas cards that tell us we are important to others, along with the Christmas message
How ‘love bombing’ can help people who feel lonely, even in company.
We now have a secure government with a majority that means it can get things done. We can be the lever that tips it in the right direction – each one of us adding a weight that eventually moves it. We can end the social care crisis.
We don’t often get to see miracles, but Emma, the manager of our Bethany Home in Plymouth saw one unfold over time, thanks to a
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