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"When Deaf people get old and need a home, we just get put in with hearing people. We need our own home, for Deaf BSL users, not with hard of hearing people. Because one home for all doesn’t work. Deaf people just get forgotten. (cc39) "
"It's worrying, obviously, the cost of it. Because more and more of us are living longer. And I was seeing on the telly recently, they were saying that if you have savings of more than £23,000 or £24,000 pounds, you are expected to look after yourself. Which is fine, but...read more
"The support that I was previously accessing is no longer available because the funding has ended. I think it's really detrimental that lots of things seem to be on short budgets. It's one year or three year grants."
"We need to understand that the amount of social care required isn't going to decrease. Because the healthcare is so much better, people are living longer. So more people are going to need the provision of social care for more years than they do at the moment. Some are reaching...read more
"It's always been an ongoing battle. In terms of recognising that I need support. But I'm also a mother of a soon to be 15 year old boy He has a personal health budget. And we've had a personal health budget now for the last six years. Although it doesn't feel like...read more
"Staff teams that I work with can be very quick to judge families’ experiences of caring for people that they're supporting. And part of my job is getting people to think about the perspective of the person they're working with. But often if they've had lots of support from their...read more
"I think care is about people. It's about understanding people. It's about accepting that we are all different and we all have different needs. My experience has been, especially through Covid, that the voluntary sector have really come to the fore in providing that care. I think the authorities have...read more
"If you're in trouble, and you're lucid enough to be able to know that you're in trouble, there should be somewhere you can actually go to get the help, before you get to a point where you or the crisis team have to step in and there's hospitalisation involved. I...read more
"I think sometimes some of this lack of communication, or good communication, can come out of people who have been working shift after shift back-to-back. And not every patient is a nice patient. People working on a Friday and Saturday have to put up with some of the most horrific...read more
"They have all this social prescribing, like the active hearts, where you go and you do your exercise and there are things like that. But they're not quite joined up yet. And you know, if you're overweight we can prescribe that you go to the nearest leisure centre and do...read more
"We do have a good healthcare system. The NHS is very good at providing healthcare, compared to a lot of other countries. However, looking at the future, are we going to have the right workforce to continue providing the care that we are providing now?"
"We need more staff, maybe more social care staff or social workers, because then the social care people would be able to get involved. But most bed workloads are so huge that, you know, people slip through the net."