Protecting Our Parents: Safe From Harm

Betty, Jim and Henry, like thousands of older people in the UK each year, are in hospital following a fall. They want to return home, but the challenge for the professionals is balancing their safety and independence. There are more pensioners than children living in Britain. As the population gets older, increasing pressure is placed on a system, which, at times, is struggling to cope. With unprecedented access to the NHS and Social Services' older adults care teams in Birmingham, Protecting Our Parents follows cases over a year from the perspective of the professionals, families and the elderly