Category Archives: dementia
Help is on hand for dementia sufferers in Worcester
A CARE home is opening its doors to people who look after loved ones or friends with dementia.
8:10am Sunday 20th May 2012
A CARE home is opening its doors to people who look after loved ones or friends with dementia.
Regent Care Home in School Road, St John’s, is hosting a dementia awareness afternoon between 2pm and 4pm tomorrow, where carers can find out more about the support available to them.
Aberdeen dementia patient ‘had 106 paid carers’
Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.
By Eleanor Bradford BBC Scotland Health Correspondent
A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.
Jeanette Maitland said the constant stream of different faces sent by agencies working for Aberdeen’s social work department contravened her husband Ken’s basic human right to dignity.
Mr Maitland died from a dementia-related illness last week.
Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.
Mrs Maitland told BBC Scotland she initially wrote down the names of her husband’s carers so that she could get to know them.
£2m service to aid dementia sufferers
DEMENTIA sufferers and their families are to get help from a new support service being launched in South Tyneside
By VERITY WARD
Published on Saturday 12 May 2012 07:20
The new initiative, called the Memory Protection Service, aims to provide access to information, support, early diagnosis, treatment and care for people with the condition along with their families and carers.
The service, which will cost £2m a year to run, is being paid for by NHS South of Tyne and Wear and run by Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, which specialises in mental health and disability care.
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