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Meeting in Mojacar for British carers!

March 17, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

British Carers let off steam in Mojacar

Friday, 16 March 2012 16:44 0 Comments Costa de Almería

GRATEFUL: Carer Fanny Davies (purple sweater) says thank you to the Vera Lions and Almeria Angels, for their ongoing support.

BRITISH carers from Mojacar, neighbouring towns and further afield (Agua Amarga and Mazarron), met to “let off Steam” over cups of tea and cake at the Mana del Cielo café, Mojacar, recently.

Fanny Davies whose husband suffers from Alzheimer’s, started the Carers Support Group Mojacar about a year ago.

She said she was beginning to get desperate because there was no support network in English.

Even though Davies speaks some Spanish, she said she felt the need for and English-speaking support group.

The group is for anyone with dependents, but also for people who have time and are willing to help by volunteering as carers, drivers or being part of the support network in any way.

Davies invites carers, their dependents and new volunteers to come to the support group day at Turre Evangelical church hall on Thursday March 15 from 11am to 2pm.

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Terminally-ill north Norfolk woman weds partner at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

March 16, 2012   Cancer, Carers, Norfolk

A terminally-ill woman from north Norfolk has fulfilled a life-long dream of getting married, despite being given only weeks to live.

By DONNA-LOUISE BISHOP
Thursday, March 15, 2012
9:37 PM

 

With only days to live after being diagnosed with cancer, Heather Cutting marries Trevor Collings in the chapel at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. Photo by Simon Finlay

Cancer sufferer Heather Cutting, 48, and her partner Trevor Collings, 47, tied the knot at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital today, in front of 40 of their closest family and friends.

The couple, who met 11 years ago when Mr Collings parked outside her previous home in Gimmingham, moved to Chapel Road at Roughton eight years ago after finding their “dream bungalow”.

They had almost finished renovating their home when she became ill on New Year’s Eve last year.

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Childline founder Rantzen plans Silver service for the elderly

March 16, 2012   Carers, disability, Older care
Esther Rantzen is launching a new telephone counselling service for vulnerable elderly people.

Esther Rantzen

Esther Rantzen is launching a new telephone counselling service for vulnerable elderly people.

Writing about her plans in the Daily Mail, the television presenter and one-time parliamentary candidate explained that she wanted the new charity to combat loneliness and the feeling “that if you ceased to exist no one would miss you”.

She said the new telephone befriending service would be called “The Silver Line” and would be a point for older people to gain information, friendship and help with serious problems, as well as advice about organisations to contact as the next step.

It comes a quarter of a century after she established Childline, launched in the wake of a BBC programme about child abuse.

Ms Rantzen, 71, said: “Loneliness particularly strikes older people who are used to having a purpose in life, to being needed.

“Gradually, the community they used to belong to has shrunk away to nothing; children have moved out, bereavement or divorce means their partners have gone ” .

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