Category Archives: disability

Aylsham Care Trust enjoys ‘dream’ opening of its new £1.2m centre

March 25, 2012   Carers, disability, mental health, Norfolk, Older care

A pioneering north Norfolk charity has celebrated a milestone in its caring history after opening a new state-of-the-art community building

Lucy Clapham Saturday, March 24, 2012  6:57 PM

The official launch of the Aylsham Care Trust (Act) Centre was dubbed a “dream come true” by the man who spearheaded the £1.2m project.

Rees Coghlan founded the charity in 1985 and has been pushing ever since to improve facilities for the town’s residents, particularly the elderly and disabled.

And his work of more than 25 years culminated today when the centre, on the St Michael’s Hospital site, was formally opened.

It will now provide a range of community services, including hosting regular lunch clubs, offer a space for groups to meet and hold training sessions for students from City College Norwich.

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New state-of-the-art loo helps Norfolk mum’s campaign for disabled dignity

March 23, 2012   brain surgery, Carers, disability, Norfolk

A campaigning mum has taken a major step in improving the lives of severely disabled residents after helping to get a new state-of-the-art toilet facility installed in north Norfolk.

Lucy Clapham Friday, March 23, 2012
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 Debbie Green has finally got the disabled toilet and changing area she has been campaigning for. Pictured in the new room at Glanford with builder and landlord Roger Combe. PHOTO: ANTONY KELLY

Debbie Green has been pushing for years to get more of the pioneering “changing place” toilets built in her home county after having her son Alistair, who was left brain damaged following his premature birth.

The “enchanting” young man died in 2008 aged 17 but Mrs Green has continued her fight to see more of the much-needed facilities installed.

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How can technology shape the way we provide care?

March 22, 2012   Carers, disability, internet, Older care

Family and care service support for the vulnerable has yet to benefit from the technological developments of our modern world

  • Madeleine Starr

 

Councils have been testing the water with telecare systems, such as this one in West Lothian, Scotland. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

Caring is going to happen to all of us; so is it time we dragged support for families who care into the 21st century?

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