Category Archives: dementia

Almost 300,000 people who suffer dementia only venture outside once a week

September 3, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Dementia: hundreds of thousands who rarely go outside

Almost 300,000 people who suffer dementia only venture outside once a week at the most and tens of thousands have given up doing so altogether, a study has found.

 

Hundreds of thousands of dementia sufferers rarely go outside, a study suggests
 

By , Social Affairs Editor

7:00AM BST 03 Sep 2013

Research by the Alzheimer’s Society highlighted how people suffering dementia feel increasingly trapped in their homes because of the difficulties of getting around.

The study called for a radical redesign of Britain’s cities – from shops to public transport – to accommodate growing numbers of people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s as the population ages.

It included a rare poll of dementia sufferers, completed with the help of carers, which found that more than two thirds are reluctant to venture outside for fear of becoming confused and getting lost or difficulties using transport or shops.

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Rooms worth remembering are set up at hospital

August 29, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

FOUR pop-up 1950s living rooms worth £4,500 have been bought by Burton’s Queen’s Hospital to help elderly patients with dementia.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Derby Telegraph

The reminiscence pods, known as RemPods, contain decade-appropriate décor, furnishings, period newspapers and magazines, a television playing recordings of old black and white shows and an old-style radio.

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    The RemPods can act as a talking point to help people with dementia.

Patients and visitors to the hospital were first shown a RemPod during national Dementia Awareness Week in May this year, when one was set up in the main corridor.

This demonstration led to Burton’s hospitals’ League of Friends’ decision to buy RemPods for the trust’s three hospital sites – Queen’s, Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, in Lichfield, and the Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital, in Tamworth – and they are due to be delivered next week.

The remaining three will go to the two other hospitals.

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Dementia sufferers more likely to be diagnosed with urinary or fecal incontinence

August 27, 2013   Carers, dementia

Dementia sufferers more likely to be diagnosed with urinary or fecal incontinence

August 27th 2013

Patients with a diagnosis of dementia have approximately three times the rate of diagnosis of urinary incontinence, and more than four times the rate of fecal incontinence, compared with those without a diagnosis of dementia, according to a study in this week’s issue of PLOS Medicine by Robert Grant (Kingston University and St. George’s, University of London) and colleagues. Furthermore, patients with dementia and incontinence were more likely to receive incontinence medications and indwelling catheters than those with incontinence but without dementia, the authors state.

The authors analyzed records of patients in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) database, a database of nearly 500 UK primary care practices. They extracted data on 54,816 people aged 60 years with a diagnosis of dementia and an age-gender stratified sample of 205,795 people without a diagnosis of dementia from 2001 to 2010. The THIN database does not distinguish nursing home (care home) residents from those who live in their own homes.

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