11:25am Thursday 4th August 2011
Did your readers know that there are currently 750,000 people with Alzheimer’s or dementia in the UK?
This number is set to rise to over a million people with dementia within ten years.
Caring for a loved one with dementia can be a lonely, stressful experience. The feeling of disconnection is hardest to bear.
There may be precious moments of clarity, when memories return and the years roll away, but for the most part carers have to watch their loved ones drifting slowly away.
By Alex Hurrell , Reporter Thursday, August 4, 2011
12.00 PM
Break is to close its Rainbow Holiday Centre in Sheringham, once the flagship of the major north Norfolk-based charity.
Rainbow’s 30 staff were told this week that the Hooks Hill Road centre will close in January 2013 after providing a welcome to thousands of children and adults with disabilities for the past 38 years.
Carers Scotland study finds that carers are twice as likely to be hit by illness and disability as the rest of the population
Carers are twice as likely to be suffering long-term illness and disability as the rest of the population, a study reveals today.
The survey, for Carers Scotland, found that 96% of unpaid carers had experienced a negative impact on their health because of their responsibilities, with more than a quarter rating their own health as poor or very poor. More than half had a long-term illness or disability, and two-thirds had experienced a range of physical problems.
