Category Archives: Carers
Age UK project helps caring gran
Tuesday 6 March 2012
A SOUTH Tyneside gran is praising a charity service for offering her a helping hand.
By VERITY WARD
Published on Tuesday 6 March 2012 08:18
For the past few months, Pat High has benefited from Age UK South Tyneside’s End of Life project.
Mrs High’s husband of 54 years, Ken, 72, suffers from the neurological disorder Huntington’s Disease and has recently been placed into full-time care at Palmersdene in Jarrow.
But the mum-of-two, who was a full-time carer for her husband, has been helped greatly by the charity’s project co-ordinator, Maria Laben.
Norfolk and Suffolk’s new mental health trust marks its launch with a showcase
Events 22 to 29 March 2012
Edited by Andy Porter editor@wellbeingnorfolk.co.uk
Members of the public are invited to join–in a program of events to mark three–months of Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust was formed at the start of this year when Suffolk and Norfolk mental health services merged, to create one organisation.
The aim of the events, which take place between 22 March and 29 March, is to raise awareness of the Trust and showcase its services to local communities that it provides services for.
The events start on 22 March with an evening of art and drama to commemorate St Clement’s Hospital in Ipswich, the last Victorian asylum in Suffolk.
The following day the Trust will host the regional launch of Triangle of Care, a new national initiative aimed at including people with mental health needs and their carers more effectively in care planning.
On Saturday 24 March the Trust will be on–hand at Chapelfield in Norwich and Tower Ramparts in Ipswich to meet with members of the public, and get talking about mental health.
From 26 to 29 March there will be a series of mental health roadshows at libraries across the two counties – including Wymondham, King’s Lynn, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, and Felixstowe, Stowmarket, Beccles and Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.
Dealing with dementia
Dealing with dementia is frustrating for the person with the condition, but also for family carers.
5 March, 2012 | By Katie Smith
Providing this sort of care at home is a 24-hour, seven-day a week job with little or no time to relax. From personal experience, I have seen the devastating effect of Alzeimer’s on my family and the difficulty in getting support from health and social services.
My grandparents celebrated 60 years of marriage last year. Since my Nan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years ago, her mental state has inevitably worsened. My Grandad is now her full-time carer although my parents, myself and our family help as much as we can.
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