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Charity acts as antidote to isolation of carers

Do you care for someone with dementia and feel afraid?

People who love and look after someone with dementia can feel just as frightened, vulnerable and uncertain as the person they care for, and are often elderly and infirm themselves.

Daybreak is a speciali st charity offering stimulation and support for people living with dementia and memory loss, as well as respite for their carers.

Daybreak helps people to live with dementia by working alongside families, professional help and other support to maintain the best quality of life for that person.

Thanks offered to West Sussex Headway carers

Tea Party to celebrate

Tea at Ardington Hotel for West Sussex Headway

Published on Wednesday 11 July 2012 07:18

A TEA party celebrated the hard work of carers for people with head injuries.

West Sussex Headway, which has offered “priceless support” to service users and carers alike across the county, held its tea party at The Ardington Hotel, in Steyne Gardens, Worthing.

Pete Sangster is a volunteer for Headway, and his wife, Gwyn, now runs the support group after suffering a brain injury in 2003 and using the charity’s services.

Pete, 63, started volunteering for the group seven years ago, and said: “Gwyn had two brain haemorrhages in September, 2003.

“She did not know who I was for three weeks.

Crackdown on care visit clock-watchers

Pensioners will be able to ask for services that suit them

By Daniel Martin, Whitehall Correspondent

UPDATED: 01:21, 10 July 2012

Ministers will pledge tough measures to end ‘clock-watching care’ visits of just 15 minutes by home helps which breach pensioners’ human rights.

Regulations, to be unveiled tomorrow, will aim to stop councils commissioning elderly care ‘by the minute’ from private care providers.

Instead, councils will be told to commission care on the basis of pensioners’ individual needs – giving them enough time to complete essential tasks such as washing, dressing and heating up food.