Category Archives: Carers
Work begins on new £850k respite centre for carers
WORK has begun on a new respite centre for people with disabilities and their families in Burton.
The Mail reported last month how Staffordshire County Council planned to build the five-bedroom centre in Hawthorn Crescent, Stapenhill.
It will replace the existing Stretton Edge centre, in Hillfield Lane, and will offer high quality, wheelchair accessible accommodation.
Staffordshire County Council said the £850,000 centre would focus on ‘dignity and respect for each individual and the highest quality service’, while providing a vital break for carers.
Andrew Clarke, whose 36-year-old son has Down’s Syndrome, is one of the carers involved in the project.
Alzheimer’s gene ‘diabetes link’
Scientists say they have identified a possible genetic link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease.
It has been known for some time that people with diabetes have a much higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, but not why this is so.
Now US researchers writing in Genetics say a study of worms has indicated a known Alzheimer’s gene also plays a role in the way insulin is processed.
Dementia experts said more work in humans was now needed.
Sleaford carers’ group gets grant to fund Woodland Walk
AN organisation in Sleaford has received a grant to fund an Olympic and Paralympic inspired project.
Sleaford Carers Group has been awarded £100 of grant funding to support their Woodland Walk, which will have an Olympic theme. The money will be used to pay for a trip out, including a lunch for the carers, on Friday, June 22.
The money has been funded through a project called Silver Spirit at Lincolnshire Sports Partnership, which awards grants of up to £300 to community groups and organisations whose members are mostly aged over 50 years and who want to run Olympic and Paralympic inspired projects in the run-up to the 2012 Games.
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