Category Archives: dementia
800,000 vulnerable elderly fighting to stay in their homes
Some 800,000 vulnerable elderly people are struggling to live in their own homes without any state-provided home help, say campaigners who argue the most vulnerable in society are being “catastrophically let down” by social services
By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent
6:30AM BST 16 Apr 2012
Councils have slashed spending on social care in the last few years, as Westminster has cut local authority funding.
Now more than four in five councils (82 per cent) will only fund home help for people with substantial or critical care needs, up from about half in 2005, according to official figures.
The result is that around 800,000 older people out of two million with care needs – many with dementia – are trying to live without any state-provided care, according to the charity Age UK.
It has joined forces with the British Geriatrics Society to lobby ministers for higher funding for social care services.
Easter event boosts the funds of a caring group
A group of dementia sufferers and their carers have held an Easter event.
There was an Easter bonnet parade, raffle and guitarist Richard Wadey entertained guests.
Karen Wellard, Secretary of the Memory Conservatory, said: “It was a really great day; everyone enjoyed themselves and it was a real success.”
Participants designed Easter eggs and there was a competition for the best Easter bonnet. The raffle also raised over £100 for the Memory Conservatory.
Karen said: “As the Memory Conservatory is free we do a raffle so people can feel like they’re helping.”
The Memory Conservatory is a self-funding charity set up by retired matron Rosemarie Stephens.
Dementia care home launches £2.5m campaign
A specialist dementia care home which prides itself on putting the patient at the heart of everything it does.
9:30am Saturday 14th April 2012 in News By Amanda Williams
IF SHE could have, Alice Beck would have nursed husband Peter ‘until the bitter end’.
The couple met and fell in love more than 40 years ago when they discovered a shared passion for music and art while at a wedding.
But when helping Mr Beck, 90, who has acute dementia, eventually became too much for Mrs Beck, she took the heartbreaking decision to put him in a home.
Mrs Beck chose Vale House, a specialist dementia care home which prides itself on putting the patient at the heart of everything it does.
And now a £2.5m fundraising drive has been launched to secure the future of the much-loved centre.
The not-for-profit home was set up in 1990 in Botley by a group of a volunteers.
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