Category Archives: Carers
Living life with Scotland’s carers
Living life with Scotland’s carers
By Fiona Walker BBC Scotland social affairs reporter
Looking after someone’s every need, virtually unpaid, sometimes on duty 24/7, surely only saints need apply. Yet it s thought that three in five of us will be a carer at some point in our lives. They can’t all be expected to be saintly. I went to see how they do it.
Dementia research funding set to rise to £66m by 2015
Care Services Minister Paul Burstow: “Making dementia a national priority… is the way we can tackle this”
Funding for research into dementia is to be doubled to £66m by 2015 to try to make the UK a world leader in the field, David Cameron will announce.
The prime minister is expected to say in a speech that the level of diagnosis, understanding and awareness of dementia is “shockingly low”.
Dementia is thought to affect around 800,000 people in the UK, with the cost to society estimated at £23bn.
GPs devise new treatment to beat depression. It’s called gardening
The ‘green gym’ provides exercise, therapeutic relaxation … and it’s dirt cheap, says top medic
Sunday 25 March 2012
Doctors are to swap pills for the potting shed under plans to prescribe gardening on the NHS as a way to help patients beat depression.
Time spent planting, pruning and propagating can be more powerful than a dose of expensive drugs, according to Sir Richard Thompson, president of the Royal College of Physicians.
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