Category Archives: dementia

I’m to live as a prisoner in my own home

November 21, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Carers will visit throughout the day to dress, wash and feed me and put me to bed at night. I am expected to use a commode which will stay in my living room, the only room I am now allowed to occupy.

Published on Monday 21 November 2011 09:28

I celebrated my 93rd last week, in respite care.

I ended up here after a short stay in hospital a few months ago. I’m not sure what happened. I told them I was getting old, I didn’t feel well and my legs wouldn’t support my weight.

They talk a lot about me, I have been to a lot of meetings recently. I can’t remember what they are about. My family have been there and they explain what is going on, but I don’t understand it all. I don’t listen to it all.

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£2m campaign raising awareness on Dementia

November 13, 2011   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Pilot on dementia is going national


A CAMPAIGN piloted in the north west to raise awareness of the early signs of dementia is being rolled out nationally.

The Department of Health is spending £2m on the TV, radio and print campaign after it proved successful in the region.

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Super home’ to be built in care home shake up

November 8, 2011   Carers, dementia, Norfolk

Norfolk could see three dementia care homes replaced by a new multi-million pound site

By BEN WOODS Tuesday, November 8, 2011
11.26 AM

 

A shake-up in the care provision across Norfolk could see three dementia care homes replaced by a new multi-million pound site.

A proposal has been launched to build an £8m super care home 
in Gorleston to shore up care 
facilities offered to elderly dementia patients.

The plans put forward by Norse Care, a public sector care company owned by Norfolk County Council, would include the closure of Magdalen House, in Gorleston, Mildred Stone House, in Great Yarmouth, and Clere House, in Ormesby, after September 2013.

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