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Sarah Whitebloom
Apr 18, 20181 min read
Pretending Bad Care doesn't exist will not help the many Good Carers - Forum
Criticising bad care is good for Good Carers. Poor care is bad for everyone
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Sarah Whitebloom
Mar 16, 20182 min read
If care professionals see me, they won't help my parents...an everyday dilemma for the sandwich
So why on Earth doesn't she just go to see them? Who would abandon a baby to this fate?
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Sarah Whitebloom
Feb 14, 20181 min read
IS THERE A PLOT TO STOP OLDER PEOPLE GETTING HELP THEY NEED AND TO WHICH THEY ARE ENTITLED?
IT might seem ridiculous to ask, but the system for claiming benefits and getting access to services is so convoluted, so difficult, that...
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Sarah Whitebloom
Jan 31, 20181 min read
HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE MOTHER-IN-LAW ON THE FAMILY HOLIDAY?
Can she really say no to an elderly lady, when she won't get any other holiday?
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Sarah Whitebloom
Jan 24, 20181 min read
I DIDN'T EXPECT THANKS FOR LOOKING AFTER MUM AND DAD...BUT I'M NOT BORING
Caroline feels the rest of the family despise her and view her as boring
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Sarah Whitebloom
Jan 22, 20181 min read
I'M OVER 60 AND I'M HIDING FROM MY MOTHER. AN EVERDAY DILEMMA FROM THE 'SANDWICH GENERAT
A reader has been in touch to say that she has spent the weekend hiding from her 89-year old mother. She feels as though she just...
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Sarah Whitebloom
Jan 15, 20181 min read
HAVE A LAUGH WITH SOME 'OLD' FRIENDS, AND DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR - OLM FORUM SHARES A TIP.
I'm not doing it because I'm so great. I'm doing it because if it were my Mum and Dad, I would hope someone might befriend them
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Sarah Whitebloom
Nov 15, 20171 min read
It was great to find Older Living Matters. Other people have the same problems. Who knew? OLM Forum
It was a relief to know her husband wasn't the only one whose things were stolen
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Sarah Whitebloom
Nov 9, 20171 min read
Why does everything have to be so hard? A reader asks OLM Forum
No one has told them what help they could get - in terms of benefits or transport or even a blue badge...they trundle along unnoticed, never
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Sarah Whitebloom
Nov 7, 20171 min read
Did you say you are fed up with rotten care homes, disgusted by attitudes to older people and angry
Whenever I talk to an older person or someone who cares for older people they have a lot to say - an awful lot to say - on all sorts of...
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