Author Archives: Maureen
Nationwide dementia screening to tackle ‘crisis’ among elderly
The first nationwide NHS screening programme to identify dementia patients earlier is to be launched to battle Britain’s “crisis” among the elderly.
7:30AM BST 26 Mar 2012
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said there was a “moral imperative” to diagnose sufferers earlier so they could receive better treatment.
The announcement comes as David Cameron warns today that the dementia crisis facing the country is on a par with high rates of HIV and cancer in previous decades.
Living life with Scotland’s carers
Living life with Scotland’s carers
By Fiona Walker BBC Scotland social affairs reporter
Looking after someone’s every need, virtually unpaid, sometimes on duty 24/7, surely only saints need apply. Yet it s thought that three in five of us will be a carer at some point in our lives. They can’t all be expected to be saintly. I went to see how they do it.
GPs devise new treatment to beat depression. It’s called gardening
The ‘green gym’ provides exercise, therapeutic relaxation … and it’s dirt cheap, says top medic
Sunday 25 March 2012
Doctors are to swap pills for the potting shed under plans to prescribe gardening on the NHS as a way to help patients beat depression.
Time spent planting, pruning and propagating can be more powerful than a dose of expensive drugs, according to Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians.
