Category Archives: Carers
Facing Dementia Together Project
Facing Dementia Together Project – Thoughts from Renfrewshire
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8d4hfCFDeo[/youtube]
This video was made in a day care centre for people with dementia and their carers and reflects the thoughts and lives of those experiencing various issues relating to diagnosis, post-diagnosis and daily life living with dementia
Show changes, mental health chiefs are told
Show changes, mental health chiefs are told
9:00am Thursday 14th April 2011
MENTAL health chiefs have been asked to show they have made improvements following the death of two patients.
Bosses from Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Bolton Hospital have been called to provide assurances that lessons have been learned.
It comes after an inquest into the death of Mark Dakin concluded he was let down by the “gross failure”
of staff.
Brain scans fuel hope of early Alzheimer’s detection
Brain scans fuel hope of early Alzheimer’s detection
By James Gallagher Health reporter, BBC News
Brain scans may be able to indicate potential Alzheimer’s patients years before symptoms appear, according to the results of a small study.
Research published in Neurology showed parts of some patients’ brains had shrunk up to a decade before signs of Alzheimer’s would otherwise be evident.
Alzheimer’s Research UK said there was stong evidence that the disease began to develop in mid-life.
Early diagnosis may one day prove vital in enabling effective treatment.
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