Protecting Our Parents
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- Episode
- Who Decides?
- Broadcast Info
- 2014 (58 mins)
- Description
- There are more pensioners than children living in Britain. As our population gets older, its health and care needs are becoming more complex, increasing pressure on a health and social care system at times already struggling to cope. With unprecedented access to the NHS and Social Services older adults care teams in Birmingham, Protecting Our Parents follows medics and social workers as they attempt to meet the increasing demand on their services. Filmed over the course of a year against a backdrop of stretched budgets and damning reports, Protecting Our Parents looks at cases from the perspective of the professionals, families and older adults themselves to explore one of the most important challenges facing our society: how should we care for our ageing population? Who Decides? explores how the NHS and Social Services are struggling to work together in joined-up partnerships to manage our expectations of care at home against the reality of their competing budgets. As we get older, most of us would choose to remain in our own homes. But what happens when the professionals decide we can no longer make that decision for ourselves? Who should take the decision that we can no longer live in our own homes?
- Genre
- Health & Social Care
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Protecting Our Parents". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/85224 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)