Category Archives: family
Dementia care apartments to be built in Redditch
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.
Campaign for Torbay carers takes to the road
Torbay raising awareness for Carers
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Paul Lucas (Non-Executive Director at Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust), Caroline Taylor (Torbay Council’s Chief Operating Officer and Director of Adult Services), Janet Helmore (Carer), Pat Goss (Chair of Torbay Carers Register), Kevin Dixon (Carer)
Stickers are springing up on car windows around the Bay with the message ‘Join Torbay Carers Register Now’ as part of a new campaign to raise awareness of the free help and support that is available to the thousands of unpaid carers across Torbay.
Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust runs carers services for people living in the Bay. Torbay’s Carers Register is one of the most successful of its kind in the country, supporting over 3,500 carers a year. It offers unpaid carers a range of services including a Carers’ Emergency Card; discount scheme; a regular carers’ newsletter and a host of useful information and support including drop-in centres in two of the Bay’s towns.
The striking car window stickers feature an image of the purple and yellow Carers Register card and encourages people to sign up to the register to access help and support. This latest campaign was launched on National Carers’ Rights Day which also aims to raise awareness of the needs of unpaid carers across the country.
It’s never too late to be an advanced achiever
New year means a new you – and the age at which we are changing our lives is going up all the time. Jerome Taylor reports on the ‘advanced achievers’
Sunday 30 December 2012
After the fireworks come the resolutions. The new year is that time in our lives when we think about fresh horizons and greener pastures. But those who might be tempted to state that change is a young person’s game need to think again. With our maturing but increasingly healthy population, age should no longer be the thing that stops us trying out something new.
Take Srikumar Sen, a former boxing correspondent who, at the age of 81, has published his first work of fiction, a novel that has already won a literary award. Buoyed by the success of his debut, he has now at work on his second book.
Dame Joan Bakewell, the previous government’s voice for elder people and a critic of society’s lack of imagination when it comes to the country’s ageing population, says retirement is no longer about finding a hobby to keep you occupied. It is an opportunity to grab a new lease of life. “It’s enormously reinvigorating to find a new interest or activity as you grow older,” she says. “It stops you slowing down and getting stuck in a routine. It keeps people young and it opens up new friendships, gives people skills they perhaps didn’t know they had.” She adds: “Things are much more flexible and they’ve got to get more so. Our country has got to harness the skills of older people. Employers have got to get more flexible, use the skills that are there and keep old people young.”
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