86-year-old man caring for his disabled wife says ‘I am at breaking point’ as squeeze on social care funding intensifies
Michael Knowles, Reporter / / News
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Dementia victims ‘written off by families’
Relatives and care staff found to be too pessimistic about activities sufferers can manage which could worse the condition
- Alzheimer’s disease sufferers worse when their families give up on them
- Families and care home staff believe sufferers cannot do leisure activities
- Researchers found dementia sufferers benefited from regular stimulation
- Patients suffer greater agitation when the illness progresses
Elderly people with dementia are too readily written off by relatives and carers, research suggests.
A study of care home residents found staff and families were overly-pessimistic about the types of activities that relations and patients were capable off.
Parents – talk to your kids about mental health.
‘More than 850,000 children in the UK are diagnosed with a mental illness.’
When I was younger, I’d have to make an excuse to leave the room whenever sex scenes came on the television. I learned to sniff out at a bedroom scene within 30 seconds and escape to make tea, or feign a yawn and head off to bed.
