Category Archives: Carers
Dementia singing groups aiming to branch out
A group which runs successful singing sessions for people with dementia and their carers has officially launched as an organisation in its own right, as it aims to help set up more sessions.
Kim Briscoe Saturday, October 27, 2012
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Come Singing started four years ago as an offshoot of a Norwich Alzheimer’s Society singing group, but now offers 17 sessions a month in care homes, day centres and for the general public in Northfields and Marion Road in Norwich, in Costessey and New Costessey, Colney and Wymondham,
Heather Edwards, from The Avenues, set up the first session as her father had dementia and as a music lecturer for the University of East Anglia she could see how people with dementia responded to music and search shows that musical memory survives relatively well in dementia.
Caring duo are declared NHS Heroes
TWO “exceptional” Tamworth health professionals
have been celebrated as NHS Heroes.
Nicola Hall and Les Dennis, who both serve in the Tamworth area, have been honoured in the national scheme to recognise and celebrate the extraordinary work that staff in the NHS carry out every day.
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Nicola Hall and Les Brooks have been awarded certificates thanking them for their dedication and care after being honoured as NHS Heroes.
Nicola, aged 37, from Polesworth, was credited for “totally transforming carer services in the Tamworth area”, and was further honoured for “always looking for new ways to support carers and provide opportunities for them”.
Nicola, who works as a carers assessment worker, said: “It’s my day job at the end of the day but it’s nice to be acknowledged. I do love my job, and it feels good to make a difference.”
Les, who was trained at St Matthew’s Hospital in Lichfield, received his honour after “providing high quality mental health care to the people of Tamworth, Lichfield and Burntwood for 30 years”.
He plans to retire in November, and admitted he will miss his job.
I’m losing my husband to a mistress called Alzheimers
Laurie Graham’s husband no longer remembers their wedding, his address or even ever being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease
By Laurie Graham
PUBLISHED: 02:01, 27 October 2012 | UPDATED: 02:01, 27 October 2012
My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors — well, OK, a few slammed doors — and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.
Let me tell you about my husband. He’s 66 years old. At first glance you’d say he looks very well. A little rumpled perhaps, and a bit slow-moving but when he troubles to wear his preferred silk bow tie and his felt fedora he still cuts a figure.
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