Tag Archives: Care Homes

For those who should be alive and loving, alive and loved.

Posted on April 28, 2022 by henry tapper

    One great sadness of the pandemic is the loss of life of thousands of elderly people discharged from hospitals into care homes where they both died and spread the pandemic to others who died. This was known to … Continue reading →

Posted in pensions | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Care homes – forgotten by us- not by Covid

Posted on June 17, 2020 by henry tapper

This article can also be found at the COVID-19 Actuaries website http://www.covid-arg.com Introduction In their weekly analysis of deaths, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the total number deaths in excess of 5-year averages in the 12 weeks … Continue reading →

Posted in actuaries, coronavirus, pensions | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Is the UK institutionally ageist?

Posted on May 14, 2020 by henry tapper

This week we hear that numbers in England and Wales dying in care homes is exceeding those in hospital. In March Government told these homes the risk of death in homes was “most unlikely”. How did it come to this? … Continue reading →

Posted in actuaries, advice gap, age wage, later life, pensions, Ros Altmann | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Why we’ve failed to build a national care service

Posted on May 8, 2020 by henry tapper

Sage seem to consider the major problem in care homes the impact it is having on the R number. At least that is how it is being reported. Sage member Professor John  Edmunds told the FT Covid-19 infections in hospitals … Continue reading →

Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, pensions | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Care homes – the elephant is out the room

Posted on April 19, 2020 by henry tapper

We can take as the roughest of approximations that the numbers dying in care or at home is about half of the number in hospitals.   That would mean that the number who have died outside hospital by now  (April … Continue reading →

Posted in actuaries, advice gap, coronavirus, pensions | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The elephant in the care home

Posted on April 13, 2020 by henry tapper

New paper looks at early evidence of care home mortality in different countries. Provisionally concludes that about half (42% to 57%) of COVID-19 deaths are taking place in care homes. As a reminder, the 11,329 deaths announced by DHSC are … Continue reading →

Posted in actuaries, advice gap, Consolation, coronavirus, pensions | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment