Tag Archives: Care Homes
For those who should be alive and loving, alive and loved.
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
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Tagged Adrian Baskir, C-19 arg, Care Homes, Covid, Dan Ryan, Stuart McDonald
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Care homes – forgotten by us- not by Covid
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
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Tagged actuaries, Care Homes, Covid-19, mortality, residential care
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Is the UK institutionally ageist?
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 Care Homes, Covid-19, Debora Price, LSE, Nursing, ONS, Ros Altmann, Stuart McDonald
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Why we’ve failed to build a national care service
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
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Tagged CARE, Care Homes, Covid-19, long term care, NHS, Social care
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Care homes – the elephant is out the room
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
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Tagged actuaries, Care Homes, Data, Death, elephant, residential care, Room Covid-19
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The elephant in the care home
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
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Tagged Care Homes, Coronavirus, COVID19, Covid19actiongroup, death rates, ONS
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