Category Archives: dementia
Singing brings harmony to sufferers of dementia
Dementia is not something anyone would like to associate with their own future.
Rutland Reminders’ volunteers get together for a singing session. They are from left, Clare Hitchcox, Pam Houlden, Janet Berridge, Dr Charles Lawrence, Diana Ellard, Ann Thomas, Mike Gee, Ruth Thomas-Twinn and Gill Lawrence.
Dementia is not something anyone would like to associate with their own future.
Unless you have had direct experience of it, usually by way of an elderly relative, it’s a thing, like death, that most of us don’t like to think about.
And yet the World Heath Organisation describes dementia as the next global health time bomb: one in four people over 65 will develop it.
A huge worldwide increase in numbers is largely down to increased longevity. The Alzheimer’s Society estimates there are 800,000 sufferers in the UK, only a minority of whom have been diagnosed and who are mostly looked after by an estimated 600,000 unpaid carers.
Rutland Reminders is a group that was set up by a teacher in 2010 to help local sufferers.
‘Slow routes’ and ‘safe haven’ shops – how cities could become dementia friendly
“Slow routes” for elderly walkers, a mass clear-out of street signs and special training for taxi-drivers and shop staff could help make transform Britain’s cities for growing numbers of people with dementia, a report suggests.
By John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor
6:00AM BST 04 Oct 2012
Meanwhile leisure centres should introduce new sport sessions which are easier for people with dementia to join and bus timetables could be simplified, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The proposals are among a string of recommendations emerging from a landmark project to turn York, where the Foundation is based, into Britain’s first “dementia friendly” city.
Andy Burnham calls for better integration of health and social care services
Andy Burnham calls for better integration of health and social care services
Published 3 October 2012
Older people are falling through the gaps of separate and fragmented health and care systems according to Andy Burnham MP.
The Shadow Health Secretary, addressing the Labour Conference in Manchester, called for a whole-person care system with mental health being at the heart of the NHS. He also highlighted the need to relieve the worry from carers by providing one point of contact.
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