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If you are a carer of someone with dementia!
Sleep drug could help dementia
Doctors are leading a new study into a drug associated with sleep which could improve the quality of life for people with dementia.
Glasgow-based medical research company CPS Research is heading a clinical trial using a drug containing the sleep hormone melatonin, which it is hoped will reduce the symptoms associated with the illness.
How my mother became my child
How my mother became my child: It’s the challenge every adult fears… having to care for a parent with dementia
By Marianne Talbot
Last updated at 11:22 PM on 25th March 2011
When her mother Lesley was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2003, Marianne Talbot, then 47, agreed to become her main carer, giving up her independent life, while continuing to teach philosophy at Oxford University. This is the deeply moving story of their laughter and their pain . . . and the terrible dilemmas that more and more families have to confront in our ageing society.
Role reversal: Marianne Talbot as a baby with her mother, Lesley
Winter 2006
Of all our little rituals, getting Mum up in the morning is the one I enjoy most. I go into her room at about 8.40am, draw the curtains and sing: ‘Wakey, wakey, rise and shine!’ Mum mutters something and pulls the duvet closer. I lean over, kiss her and say: ‘Ten minutes, then I’m going to tip you out.’
RICKY GERVAIS: IT’S CRUEL TO AXE NETHERWOOD DAY CENTRE
Celebrities sign up for battle to save Alzheimer’s day centre
Published: 24th March, 2011
EXCLUSIVE by TOM FOOT
SEVEN-TIMES Bafta winner Ricky Gervais has told the New Journal he thinks Town Hall chiefs are “cruel” for closing a day centre for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
The man who made The Office called for the Netherwood Day Centre in West Hampstead to be spared. It has lost out in spending cuts ordered by Camden Council.
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