Monthly Archives: February 2012
Word games and quizzes can help people with dementia
Bangor dementia patient trial to look at games and quizzes
People with dementia and their carers are to be recruited for a trial looking at how word games and quizzes can benefit brain stimulation in sufferers.
Bangor University research suggests cognitive stimulation from playing dominoes or even baking a cake can also help boost memory.
Great news for carers with a £1.1m lottery funding project
Region wins £1.1m lottery funding
About 500 older people with learning disabilities and their carers will benefit from a new project in North Tyneside given more than £460,000 from the Big Lottery Fund.
In total, £1.1 million is being awarded to four projects across the North East from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) Reaching Communities programme, which aims to help those most in need and build stronger communities.
The Learning Disabilities Federation will use the £463,058 grant to encourage independent living by allowing older people, many of whom rely on carers, to live in their own homes for longer.
The Government is facing a showdown today re Welfare Reform Bill
The Government is facing a showdown with peers over its controversial shake-up of the benefits system.
The proposals have already endured a difficult time in the House of Lords, where peers inflicted a series of defeats on ministers over the reforms, which will cap benefits at £26,000.
But the changes imposed on the Government were reversed by MPs, and the Welfare Reform Bill now returns to the Lords for what could be a test of strength between the two Houses of Parliament.
