Category Archives: dementia

This will shake your ideas about responsibility – very moving

February 7, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

A Life Beyond Dementia

http://youtu.be/PCi65x07vRw

 

Published on Feb 1, 2013

Throughout the world, families? lives are changed immeasurably as a consequence of DEMENTIA. But as with all aspects of our seemingly complex lives, things are not what they seem. It has always been possible to see the very same circumstance through the depth of a wiser gaze.

Lives are transformed through such a gaze. My hope is that Olga?s experience will change the very sight you place on your own circumstance. And in doing so, change your circumstance.

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Dementia care apartments to be built in Redditch

February 2, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, family, health

A STATE-of-the-art development, including self-contained dementia care apartments aimed at keeping family and partners together, is being built in Redditch.

5:00pm Saturday 2nd February 2013 in News

The development, in Evesham Road, Headless Cross, will include 42 apartments along with communal facilities and a well-being centre.

The work involves the demolition of an existing building, built in the early 1900s and donated to the Red Cross by then owner Dorothy Terry, to be used as a care facility.

The new development will be known as Dorothy Terry House.

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'Promising' dementia drug made from pigs' brains could help 200,000 sufferers

January 31, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

The new drug called cerebrolysin improves concentration, memory and mood among those suffering with vascular dementia

  • The new drug is licensed in some countries but not in the UK or U.S.
  • No serious side effects were reported from taking the drug

By Jenny Hope

PUBLISHED: 00:46, 31 January 2013 | UPDATED: 03:32, 31 January 2013

 

The new drug called cerebrolysin improves concentration, memory processing and mood in patients

Dementia sufferers may benefit from a ‘promising’ new treatment made from pigs’ brains, say researchers.

The new drug – called cerebrolysin – improves concentration, memory processing and mood in patients with a certain kind of dementia known as vascular dementia, which affects up to 200,000 Britons.

No treatment has yet been specifically developed for vascular dementia.

But the new drug is licensed in some countries for dementia, stroke and traumatic brain injury – although not yet here or in the US.

Researcher Li He of the Department of Neurology at Sichuan University in Sichuan, China, said ‘Our review suggests that Cerebrolysin can help improve cognitive and global function in patients with mild to moderate severity vascular dementia.’

Cerebrolysin is a drug made from pig brain proteins that has produced some positive results from small vascular dementia trials.

Larger trials are now underway.

But the drug is not easy to administer, with regular intravenous infusions necessary, says the review.

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