Telecare Aware has moved – see below

We have made a few changes to the structure of our main website to make it easier to find content by navigation, and added a ‘What is Telecare?’ page under ‘Telecare for you’.

Tunstall press release promoting its Learning Disabilities Technology Guide

Alertacall Ltd. has written to directors of adult social care challenging them to increase the amount of PTG funding they have available to spend on people with high-level telecare needs from £500 to £960 — and to do so whilst meeting half their target number of people benefiting from telecare.

Our recent newsletter mentioned that we occasionally log examples of local publicity. Some are upbeat and others miss the mark. Here is one of each:

Great local good news story.

Multi-million pound support package for older people, disabled people and their carers announced.

Interesting take by Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, author of ‘The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle’ on the Government White Paper ‘Our Health, Our Care, Our Choice’

You and Yours didn’t run the story yesterday as planned. We will let you know when they do.

The EasyLiving scheme has apartment properties designed specifically for older people who want an easily managed property and an independent lifestyle, together with the benefit of 24-hour on-site support.

Professor James Barlow (see our ‘About us’ page) will be talking about telecare on Radio 4’s ‘You and Yours’ consumer affairs programme on Monday 6 March, 12-1pm.