Age UK warns of risk to older people being unjustifiably deprived of liberty
by Aine Fox
Mar 08, 2024
4 minutes
Staffing and time pressures in social care risk the “nightmare scenario” that older people could be being unjustifiably deprived of their freedom, Age UK has warned in a new report.
The older people’s charity warned that the system aimed at keeping people safe in care homes “for an alarming number of older people is not working at all”.
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are a legal procedure used to keep a person who lacks capacity to consent to their care safe from harm in a care home or hospital, such as those with dementia or mental health problems.
Chronic under-funding of
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