Category Archives: dementia
Boost for North Yorkshire respite care centres
Improvements for adult day care in North Yorkshire
9:33am Thursday 28th July 2011
By Mark Stead » Political Reporter
MILLIONS of pounds are to be spent on bringing adult day care in North Yorkshire up to date.
The £3.8 million package of improvements to Selby Day Activity Centre will include the creation of a new four-bed respite unit after the facility was marked out as needing work to bring it up to modern standards.
New dementia centre opens in Harford, Norwich
Improving the lives of dementia sufferers in Norwich.
Lucy Wright Thursday, July 28, 2011
10.50 AM
Dementia sufferers gathered with staff and their carers yesterday to celebrate the opening of a new centre in Norwich.
Harford Hill dementia centre, in Ipswich Road, will care for up to 25 people and the £90,000 project involved altering, improving and furnishing an existing building on the same site as the council-run Learning Difficulties resource centre.
Elderly care: expert to review quality and regulation
Ministers will today set up an independent review of elderly care in England, as the health watchdog publishes a damning report into the private provider exposed by Panorama.
10:00PM BST 27 Jul 2011
An expert in the sector will look into how “quality and regulation” can be improved amid growing concern that pensioners and disabled people are receiving substandard treatment from the NHS and local councils.
The Department of Health believes the failures at the private hospital run by Castlebeck, where undercover filming exposed the abuse of adults with learning disabilities, are “totally unacceptable”.
Whitehall sources say they will not tolerate poor standards at a company paid millions of pounds by taxpayers to protect some of society’s most vulnerable members.
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