Monthly Archives: November 2012
Trial could cut agonising wait for dementia diagnosis
Government-backed assessment service trial will see Cambridge Cognition’s state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies placed in the community
The traditional path to diagnosing dementia is long and slow, often taking 18 months of agonised waiting.
Now this could be set to change with a government-backed trial of a dementia assessment service that aims to cut this to just three months.
It is being called a “paradigm shift” as it depends on placing state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies in the community where people can access them quickly and easily.
According to senior lecturer and honorary consultant neurologist Dr Dennis Chan, this trial – dubbed the Brain Health Centre initiative – will accelerate access to the kind of evaluation currently available in only regional centres of excellence in hospital clinics.
Most elderly ‘never use internet’
Most older people in the UK and many of those who are disabled have never used the internet, a study has shown.
Only 30% of adults aged 75 years and over had ever used the internet, the latest quarterly release about internet use by adults found.
There were 3.24 million non-users aged 75 years and over, said the Office for National Statistics.
The elderly non-users also made up 43% of the 7.63 million people who had never used the internet. Within the demographic, elderly women were also much less likely to go online than their male counterparts.
Safeguarding adults: how do we protect the most vulnerable?
All staff, from cleaners to chief executives, should know how to raise concerns over abuse and ensure they are listened to
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Keith Brown
- Guardian Professional,
While there is a sense of some justice that carers from the notorious Winterbourne View hospital are now in jail, there is still one terrible tragedy that remains unaddressed.
How could there be so many people working in the hospital who did not raise the alarm? Moreover, how does a culture like that start in a hospital or care setting in the first place and who is looking at the leadership model that allow it to happen?
Today, Bournemouth University is hosting a conference on safeguarding adults. We were told that those working in social care no longer have time for conferences but had hoped 200 people might attend. Instead, we closed the list at 300 people and have another 70 on a waiting list.
