Monthly Archives: March 2012

Norwich Door to Door Founder and Passenger chosen as an Olympic Torchbearer

March 19, 2012   Carers, cerebral palsy, Norfolk

Roger’s nomination story

  • Carrying the Flame on: 05 Jul 2012
  • Carrying the Flame through: Acle
  • Age: 60
  • Hometown: Norwich

 

Roger is the founder of Norwich Door to Door, a voluntary organisation and charity formed on July 17 1992. We will be 20 years old in July 2012. Today the charity supports 500 severely disabled children, adults and older people with mobility problems who are unable to leave their own homes without specialist care and assistance. We own seven accessible mini buses with lifts that are the wheels to opportunity in our community.
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New projects offer dementia hope

March 19, 2012   Carers, dementia

The project is based at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital.

10:00am Monday 19th March 2012 in News

TWO multi-million pound projects have just been launched in Oxford in the hope of one day finding a cure.

Over the next five years, the LEAD (longitudinal early Alzheimer’s disease) project will see a group of about 200 people from across the county and country monitored to find a way of slowing down, and curing, the progression of Alzheimer’s – the most common form of dementia.

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Elderly ‘should be cared for at home on NHS’

March 19, 2012   Carers, Older care

Elderly patients should be looked after at home by NHS-funded carers instead of being kept at hospital, experts said in a criticism of the Government’s health reforms.

By , Science Correspondent

7:30AM GMT 19 Mar 2012

 

Spending more NHS money on community health programmes and social care would reduce the burden placed on hospitals by patients including dementia sufferers, according to a new report.

But the coalition has failed to remove barriers which prevent health and social care from being more closely integrated, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) said.

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