Category Archives: Carers
Dementia sufferer from Esher gets £7,000 refund on burglar alarm
10:00am Saturday 17th November 2012
Beware of Cold Callers
An elderly dementia sufferer from Esher was hailed in National Consumer Week, after a refund of more than £7,000 from traders who sold her a ‘free’ burglar alarm.
Nesta Hollis, 77, was recovering from two strokes when she was approached by cold-callers at her door, selling what turned out to be a 15-year servicing and monitoring contract costing thousands.
Trial could cut agonising wait for dementia diagnosis
Government-backed assessment service trial will see Cambridge Cognition’s state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies placed in the community
The traditional path to diagnosing dementia is long and slow, often taking 18 months of agonised waiting.
Now this could be set to change with a government-backed trial of a dementia assessment service that aims to cut this to just three months.
It is being called a “paradigm shift” as it depends on placing state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies in the community where people can access them quickly and easily.
According to senior lecturer and honorary consultant neurologist Dr Dennis Chan, this trial – dubbed the Brain Health Centre initiative – will accelerate access to the kind of evaluation currently available in only regional centres of excellence in hospital clinics.
Most elderly ‘never use internet’
Most older people in the UK and many of those who are disabled have never used the internet, a study has shown.
Only 30% of adults aged 75 years and over had ever used the internet, the latest quarterly release about internet use by adults found.
There were 3.24 million non-users aged 75 years and over, said the Office for National Statistics.
The elderly non-users also made up 43% of the 7.63 million people who had never used the internet. Within the demographic, elderly women were also much less likely to go online than their male counterparts.
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