A Ricky Gervais sketch on employing disabled staff.It’s been a decade since The Office appeared on our TV screens. The story of daily grind in a Slough paper merchants was so realistic that when I stumbled across it on BBC2 one night it took me a minute to realise that it wasn’t a documentary.
Category Archives: Carers
Ricky Gervais improving the lives of disabled people
Thank you Ricky Gervais, for improving the lives of disabled people
As the mother of two disabled daughters I thank Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for the way they have highlighted discrimination and ignorance, writes Nicky Clark
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65 year old baby boomer has a one in eight chance of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
Can Baby Boomers Dodge the Alzheimer’s Bullet?
They say timing is everything….
by Bob Demarco, Alzheimer’s Reading Room
Back on January 4th I submitted a story on Alzheimer’s disease for publication in three community magazines in northern New Jersey. This was the first time I had done something like this.
Here is the first sentence:
A 65 year old baby boomer has a one in eight chance of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Starting today, and over the weekend, you are going to hear those words repeated over and over on television and in the news.
UK carers are facing terrible concerns over finances
UK carers ‘desperately worried about finances’
By Katherine Sellgren BBC News education reporter
Many carers had given up their jobs to help relatives and are now trapped in debt
The financial situation of more than a third of carers in the UK is so bad they do not want to wake up in the morning, research suggests.
A survey by Princess Royal Trust for Carers found 45% of those it questioned wanted to run away or felt depressed and that they could not cope.
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