Protecting Our Parents

Supporting Content

• Go to The Open University's Protecting Our Parents website

  

• TV blog: Read series producer Alice Perman's post

  

• A mixture of emotions—Nowhere to Go

  Duration: 2:01

• "What you looking for Evelyn"—Nowhere to Go

  Duration: 1:02

• Moving to the ward—Nowhere to Go

  Duration: 1:06

• Leaving home—Nowhere to Go

  Duration: 1:17
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• Protecting Our Parents - the facts

  
  

  • Around 1 in 3 people over 65 and 1 in 2 over 80 fall each year.

  • Every year, over 500,000 older people attend UK emergency departments following a fall.

  • Falls and fractures in the over-65s account for four million hospital bed days each year in England.

  • Older people are more likely to stay a long time in hospital, to be moved while there, to experience delayed discharge, and to be readmitted within a month as an emergency. 

  • It is estimated that a third of older patients initially admitted to hospital as a medical emergency no longer have a need to be in a hospital bed.

  • 10.7 million people in Great Britain can currently expect inadequate retirement incomes (1 in 6 of us).

  • Demand for places in care homes will double in the next 20 years.

  • There will be an estimated 51% more people aged 65 and over in England in 2030 compared to 2010.

  • There will be an estimated 101% more people aged 85 and over in England in 2030 compared to 2010. 

  • There are currently around 800,000 people with dementia in the UK.

  • Dementia disease costs the economy £23 billion a year.

  • By 2040, the number of people affected is expected to double - and the costs are likely to treble. 

• Agencies that assisted in the making of Protecting Our Parents

  • Advocacy Matters (www.advocacymatters.co.uk)
  • Adult Social Services (birmingham.gov.uk)
  • Birmingham City Council Services for Older People (www.birmingham.gov.uk)
  • Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust (www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk)
  • Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (www.bsmhft.nhs.uk)
  • Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (www.heartofengland.nhs.uk)
  • Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council Adult Social Care (www.solihull.gov.uk)
  • West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (www.wmas.nhs.uk)