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Severe dementia care: Homes try new approach
The Namaste programme
By Adam Brimelow Health correspondent, BBC News
It is estimated that one-in-three people over 65 will die with dementia.
Researchers say there is a lack of evidence on how to provide the best care for patients with advanced dementia who are terminally ill.
This week a group of leading health charities wrote to the prime minister urging him to make this a priority as part of his “dementia challenge”.
I have been to see a new approach to looking after people with severe dementia that’s on trial in several care homes in south London.
The programme is called Namaste, in this case meaning “to honour the spirit within”.
Disability charity is awarded £20k grant
A Frome charity that supports people with learning and communication difficulties has been awarded a grant of £20,900.
Openstorytellers, based in Bridge Street, has been given the money over the next two years by Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales.
The grant will help fund an administrator so the charity can continue to help reduce social exclusion.
Openstorytellers was established in 2009 and operates across Somerset and Wiltshire. The administrator will provide support for its projects and services.
