Category Archives: Norfolk

Have your say on dementia care at King’s Lynn hospital

July 14, 2013   Carers, dementia, Norfolk

West Norfolk residents will be given the chance to have their say on dementia care services in the area at an event being held at Lynn’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital next week.

Health news from the Lynn News, lynnnews.co.uk,

Published on the 13 July 2013

Officials say that the Dementia 2gether event, which takes place on Monday, has been organised in response to a high level of public concern in the borough about the condition and will help to influence service development.

Valerie Newton, the hospital’s deputy director of nursing and patient experience, said: “The aim of the event is to give local people current information on dementia and to give them an opportunity to discuss the experiences they have had in relation to dementia at the hospital.

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Prince’s Trust teenagers add colour to east Norfolk care home garden

July 9, 2013   Carers, Norfolk, Older care

 

Tuesday, July 9, 2013 01:04 PM

Teenagers have flexed their green fingers to make life more enjoyable for residents of an east Norfolk care home.

Students from Great Yarmouth High School’s Prince’s Trust group rallied together to spruce up the garden of Clere House care home in Pippin Close, Ormesby, near Yarmouth.

Ten teenagers took part in the community gardening project, part of their course.

Helen Hyde, the school’s Prince’s Trust coordinator, said: “The pupils worked hard sanding down existing wooden planters and giving them a fresh coat of preservative with the residents watching over the action.

“They then filled the planters with fresh compost and added a variety of colourful plants.”

The project came about after Ms Hyde went to the care home to discuss a different project, but during the visit noticed that the gardens lacked some colour.

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Elderly residents ‘life line’ coffee shops are taken away in Norfolk

June 19, 2013   Carers, Norfolk, Older care, ukcuts

Residents angry as “lifeline” coffee shops are taken away from 14 Norfolk care at home complexes

Residents at the Wherry Housing Associated sheltered home complex, Redmayne View, angry that Norse are cancelling their café and shop. Picture: Denise Bradley Residents at the Wherry Housing Associated sheltered home complex, Redmayne View, angry that Norse are cancelling their café and shop. Picture: Denise Bradley

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
12:00 PM

 

Angry residents of a Norwich care home have blasted funding cuts which will see their “lifeline” on-site coffee shop taken away and the hours of their shop slashed.

Older people living in the Redmayne View care at home complex, in Sprowston, say their quality of life will be damaged by the changes – part of a shake-up which has put 51 jobs at Norse Commercial Services at risk around Norfolk.

Redmayne View is one of more than a dozen care homes round the county where Norfolk County Council subsidises Norse Commercial Services to provide on-site coffee shops and convenience stores.

And with looming job cuts, those shops and stores, so valued by the elderly residents, are in danger of disappearing or having their hours reduced.

The 40 residents of Redmayne View currently enjoy a staffed coffee shop and mini convenience store service between 10am and 11.30am five days a week.

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