Q. how to solve the carers' overpayments crisis?

A. do the checks on earning quicker so overpayment 'debts' do not accrue to the levels they have in the past?

That's the DWP's (technocratic) answer.

A better answer might be to respect carers, recognise that unless they have a pension they have to work to supplement it & remove this threshold altogether.

Once people are providing care, lets just pay them & not penalise them for juggling their incomes!

#care #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/15/dwp-overhaul-carers-allowance-checks-overpayment-scandal

A couple of weeks ago, I gave a presentation to Unite the Union's Retired Members Branch on the state of the National Care Service and how Scotland could bring the private care sector into public ownership.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut7xnBvyAss

I've always had a difficult relationship with my mom, but now I'm her #caregiver. I'm struggling to set new boundaries with her.

"...I just have to give her the grace I would want if I lost my #memory..."

#Dementia #Care #Health #Frailty #Geriatrics #Alzheimer

https://www.businessinsider.com/sandwich-generation-difficult-relationship-with-mom-caregiver-2025-4

Where is the #care in Health Care? "Blue Cross had stranded many of the center’s patients with high bills, amounts that it had absorbed over the years. On several occasions, though, Blue Cross executives had signed special one-time deals with the center, known as single case agreements, to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment."

https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#HealthCare
#BreastCancer
#BlueCross

*~*Matthew 6:25-34*~*

*~*God Taking Care Of Us!*~*

*~*Do Not Be Anxious!*~*

*~*“Therefore I tell you!*do not be anxious about your life!*what you will eat!*or what you will drink!*nor about your body!*what you will put on!*Is not life more than food!*& the body more than clothing?*Look at the birds of the air!*they neither sow!*nor reap!*nor gather into barns!*& yet your heavenly Father feeds them!*Are you not of more value than they?*&

*fear not!*for I am with you!*be not dismayed!*for I am your God!*I will strengthen you!*I will help you!*I will uphold you with my righteous right hand!

*Fear Not!*for I Am with You!

*fear not!*for I am with you!*be not dismayed!*for I am your God!*I will strengthen you!*I will help you!*I will uphold you with my righteous right hand!

*God Taking Care Of Us!

*Fear Not!*for I Am with You!

*fear not!*for I am with you!*be not dismayed!*for I am your God!*I will strengthen you!*I will help you!*I will uphold you with my righteous right hand!

*~*Isaiah 41:10*~*

*~*God Taking Care Of Us!*~*

*~*Fear Not!*for I Am with You!*~*

*~*fear not!*for I am with you!*be not dismayed!*for I am your God!*I will strengthen you!*I will help you!*I will uphold you with my righteous right hand!*~*

The interaction between the NHS & the care system is so difficult to navigate that its harming carers & those who need care; its exhausting carers (who often have to retell their medical histories again & again) to the point of burnout.

Although as yet only partly exposed to this (as the primary carer for my wife) I have already experienced the exhaustion of constantly having to go back to square one to explain to a new specialist what is going on....

#health #care
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/10/englands-complex-health-and-care-system-harming-patients-report-says

The #UN University published their #InterconnectedRisks Report: It's a theory about how we can #change our world for sustainable living (and why it is possible): https://interconnectedrisks.org/

When I had the idea for my podcast about #ReconnectingWithNature, a lot of people laughed at it. Now I find this #mindshift again and even some #solarpunk ideas like #care, #humility, #sufficiency https://interconnectedrisks.org/2025/theory-of-deep-change Well, let's start to work on a better world, and fight this minority of destroyers! 1/2

Operating rooms (ORs) use three to six times more energy per occupied space than other hospital areas and generate approximately one-third of hospital waste. But simple changes in surgical practice can cut waste, reduce energy-intensive sterilization, and lower greenhouse gas emissions without compromising patient care

https://www.cma.ca/get-involved/events/climate-rounds-sustainable-surgery

"Publishing #diamond #OpenAccess is a noblesse oblige for us. Let everyone benefit from research, so that we contribute together to appropriate care and improve the quality of life for people with #intellectual #disabilities."

Read the interview with Alain Dekker, editor of an open access book on #psychosocial #support #methods:

https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/publishing-a-open-access-book-on-psychosocial-support-methods-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilit

The book, published in 2024, has been downloaded >10,000 times by now.

#research #care #psychology #SocialWork

by Silvio Zangarini

Lovely story of zookeeper Alan Toyne parenting a baby #gorilla

#greatape #infancy #lifehistory #human #care

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/09/a-moment-that-changed-me-i-brought-a-baby-gorilla-home-and-learned-so-much-about-being-a-parent

Coucou Mastodon,

Je migre doucement de mon Instagram jusqu'à vous, en profond désaccord avec les politiques d'utilisation Méta et les idéologies de ses détenteurs.

Jeune maman d'un petit mammifère auprès duquel j'apprends chaque jour et suite à notre déménagement de Dijon vers la Vallée, je prends le temps de redécouvrir mon corps, mon monde intérieur, la vie de campagne, ses cycles et ses saisons...