Monthly Archives: March 2011
Laughter really is the best medicine (for leg ulcers)
Published Tuesday 8th March 11
Forget technology. The best prescription for patients with venous leg ulcers is good quality nursing care – and the occasional belly laugh!
Bolton man with motor neurone disease ‘banks’ his voice
Bolton man with motor neurone disease ‘banks’ his voice
A man from Bolton who has motor neurone disease (MND) is recording his words so his baby son will be able to hear his voice.
Laurence Brewer was diagnosed with MND – a progressive condition that damages the nervous system – in 2008.
Mr Brewer, 43, has already lost much of his mobility. Concerned that his speech could be next, he went online and discovered a speech synthesis programme called ModelTalker which allows him to record his speech patterns
The driving force behind it is Mr Brewer’s 13-month-old son, Stan.
Go ON Adopt a Care Home
Go ON Adopt a Care Home
March 8, 2011
With 6 million older people currently offline and around 450,000 care home residents in the UK, Go ON Adopt a Care Home has just launched to utilise the brilliant skills of young Digital Champions.
The inspiration of Lilla Harris, former nurse and care home manager and founder of the award winning finerday.com, Go ON Adopt is encouraging every school in the UK to “adopt” a local care home or sheltered housing scheme, to help engage residents in the wonderful world of the web. For Lilla, it’s the logical next step after Finerday, which she developed after witnessing the dwindling number of letters and photos older people received. She realised that “the world was moving online and leaving older people more and more isolated.”
