Monthly Archives: April 2016
Parkinson’s Awareness Week – 18- 24th April 2016
Advice and Support for Carers of people with Parkinson’s
Norfolk Carers, the lead agency for advice and support for unpaid carers in Norfolk is, this week, teaming up with Parkinson’s UK to highlight the support available for carers of people with Parkinson’s, when a family member is diagnosed with the condition.
Carol Bush, 69, from Shipdham, cares for her husband, Gerald, 72,. She says it was important to find out about support groups in her area:
“When Gerald was first diagnosed it was a shock and we didn’t know anything about Parkinson’s. We immediately got information from Parkinson’s UK and then went on to find out about support groups in our area. It’s very important to get involved and try to mix with other people who are caring for someone with the condition.”
It took a serious accident for my autistic son to get the help he needed
Glass and blood went everywhere when my teenage son removed every fragment of the window he had broken with his bare hands.’
First of a new kind of care village set to open
A new care village – the first of its kind in East Anglia – is opening its doors to residents from Monday.
It’s like a fancy hotel complex with a hairdressers, bar, cafe, shop and restaurant set in landscaped gardens but it’s actually made up of 92 care flats and a dementia home.
Four council care homes built in the 1970s in Norwich are shutting and the residents transferring to Bowthorpe Care Village on the outskirts of of the city.
