Guest blog by Joy Anderson, member of AWOC facebook group Care and my own destiny was not something I thought about that much before the birth of AWOC although I had been acutely aware that not having children meant society and my family treated me... Continue reading
I didn’t watch Disptaches last night. The programme, an expose on abuse and poor practice in BUPA care homes, was another in a very long line of documentaries highlighting the appalling treatment of older people in some care homes. This should no longer be news... Continue reading
“I don’t expect/want my children to look after me” “Great! What plans have you made so they don’t have to?” I’ve not yet met an older person who told me they expected their children to look after them but as we see below, the reality... Continue reading
I have worked with & for older people for almost my entire working life (24 years & counting!). For the majority of those years, the impact of being without children in old age never occurred to me. Throughout my 20s as I worked as an... Continue reading
Along with things that go together like love and marriage and a horse and carriage, the words “friends and family” are permanently linked together in policy documents on health and social care. Last week on twitter, the wonderful John’s Campaign were discussing issues around the... Continue reading
“older people and their families”, “older people and their relatives”; in all the coverage of the so called dementia tax and the spotlight on social care, older people were entirely bracketed with their family or relatives. AWOC believes we all know what is meant when... Continue reading
Guest blog from Jill Lamede http://www.lamede.com/ Dignity in Dying What is death? It is the moment of transition – the natural full stop to a life. It is something we must all experience. We can choose to fear death – but that fear can poison... Continue reading
Our blog for Independent Age’s Doing Care Differently series https://www.independentage.org/policy-and-research/doing-care-differently/designing-care-services-that-dont-rely-family-kirsty-woodard Continue reading
Ageing without children’s (AWOC) survey of 400 people ageing without children identified that the biggest fears they had were: The biggest fear (28%) was having no one to speak up for them or act in their best interests when they could no longer do so... Continue reading
There was a time when I naively believed that when Government made policy to address an issue or a problem, politicians looked at the facts, weighed the evidence, asked experts for their opinion and then came up with a policy that would hopefully solve as... Continue reading