Category Archives: mental health
Fluttering butterflies brilliant blog for Mental Health week
Monday, April 18, 2011
This week I’d like to discuss something very important and personal to me … mental illness. It’s something that I feel very strongly about, having struggled with various forms throughout my life. I feel, even now, that there is a huge stigma attached to people who suffer from mental health issues and I’d like to do something, even as small as hosting this themed week, in order to take away some of the shame associated with admitting to mental illness.
Carers really do Care!
Maybe I’m grasping at straws out of pure desperation here. I have no carer. Oh, I have friends and family, I am not alone in the world so to speak, though I do feel it. But I do not have anyone who is close to me that tries to understand and support and be there. The one friend I have who would if she could, can’t because she suffers PTSD as well. Going thru divorce, so have no spouse. So what am I getting at?
Interview with Emily Holzhausen, Carers UK
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGpBKiAu9Ss[/youtube]
Interview conducted with Emily Holzhausen, Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Carers UK. Emily discussed the rising costs of dementia particularly in relation to unpaid family carers, particularly hidden costs and social costs. This interview took place at a debate hosted by The International Longevity Centre (ILC-UK) with the Actuarial Profession, and supported by Pfizer titled: The Future Economic, Health and Social Care Costs of Dementia.
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