Time for a Make Over of our Blogs - Part One

A while ago l decided that all our Google Blogs needed a make-over and so l put in hand changing everything, part of that is now complete today!

The next step is getting our advertising right and making sure all our visitors, get value for money and that all the good and services, are fit for purpose!

Well that is part one now for part two!     


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Thanks Ian [Editor]

Network Business News

Hi all my visitors and friends,

So time ago l said that l would be posting more regular updates to our network, well due to my mother having a really serious fall, this time resulting in hospitalisation l was unable to commence re-posting until now.

But l have managed to add all our profiles to google at http://www.google.com/profiles/idadamchristian96 and have also added a network gadget that can be downloaded at http://www.elertgadget.com/downloads/community.php?id=2928 that is at present added to both our friend feed and twitter updates. Also take a visit to twitter at ad144000hoe and take a look at the people that are updating on my site across the web including google, slashdot and even Biz Stone founder of twitter.

Just also added blogs that l am following to side bar and also a sharethisbutton to enable anyone visiting to share all our posts, that l hope will be regular.

So other news is that l am in the process of co-ordinating care in the community for my mother as l find that it is the only way to get a service delivered at the point of delivery. So using an agency that l set-up called " The Orion Care & Cleaning Service Agency {Warwick shire} l will provided carers, cleaners and people l worked with in the care industry for around 4 years and have met since leaving the charitable trust company. Anyway meetings with Social Services and others all next week and then next step obtain funding using Direct Payment l will provide all the steps as it proceeds to how you obtain all the services to provide " Care In Your Community " for your elderly family member. So far l have filled 2 loose leaf folders with service providers and care agency notes.

What else is new, well we will soon be having special offers from our AceiShop and they will be featured on our fellow associates blog soon to be opened with the help and guidance of blogger his name is RJS known as moanyrich but not because he moans.

Anyway will sign off for now and add more very soon promise, keep following "The Roving Giraffe News Reports" across the web by obtaining my gadget, any problems email me or leave a comment l always reply to everyone. G

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Does Care In Our Community Matter OR Funding?

Hi, Welcome everyone to my latest post a lot has happened since last time and my time has become quite limited as my mother has been very ill. I have assumed the role of part/full-time carer together with co-ordinating a number of key services across the range of facilities from physiotherapist to support workers.

Having been involved in the caring profession for a number of years l have nothing but admiration for the dedicated people that give their time and energy to either caring for an elderly person in their own home. Or the carers that work out in the community or are based in a specific care home.

I know when l was based in 2 particular care homes l was surrounded by either excellent carers and nurses or people that thought of it as a job, mainly agency based personnel. So returning to a single carers role for the past 6 weeks has helped focus me on my role not just as a carer but also as an adminstrater of services that do not seem to have any rhyme or reason.

Basically there are a lot of different agencies, consultancies and service providers but each department or organisation does not know what the other one is doing. For example ask for a particular type of service namely " Lifeline" this is prevalent in our area and you get a new service provider that will connect your phone to a control centre so should my mother fall then they visit. This seems very simple in essence but add the fact my mother has lifeline in her home already it has to be changed to take account of the new service provider, why you may ask as she already has a lifeline box, but as we called in under a " falls situation" we now have to add to the box another agency funded by our council in Warwickshire. So now we have 2 agencies/organisations over-lapping each other and adding more problems for an 85 year old woman.

By now as me your asking why are two agencies involved and the reason is simply funding, ring fenced or otherwise and both parties have to justify their existence by filling in copious amounts of forms, collecting data and advising on a number so of visits this is just to allow us to gather details for " Health and Safety". As the number of people gather at various times all basically asking the same questions.

Well by now l am really confused, first before the fall she has asked nothing for the last 2 years, one fall followed by a second and in come the service providers taking over my mothers life, not one key to let themselves into her home but two. It goes on and on - a bit like me.

Anyway you get my point the left-hand does not know what the right-hand is doing and everyone has to justify what they are doing to get more funding next year, all under the auspices of so called over the top " Health & Safety. Of course the chance of being sued should the family member be hurt or not get the services provided in the right way.

Many moons ago charity began with people called the Romans who set-up communities to provide assistance to their family, friends and neighbours, this was called " Caritas" which is Latin for charity. They had no problems in caring they just saw it as everyday life. Many years later we set-up the " Community Care Act in 1990 and intended to provide "Caritas" but it became money and funding was ring fenced in favour of looking good, to voters.

This may seem an odd post from me but it needed to be voiced and should anyone feel as l do l have learned a lot as a management consultant how to contract the right services in the right way, by the way you present the need.

So anyone like to comment send me an email or leave a comment on the blog.

Speak soon - or is it ramble any bye for now ED