Category Archives: Norfolk
MS Information Afternoon
MS Information Afternoon – North Norfolk
Saturday 3rd November 2012
at Pinewood Park Leisure Centre, Holt Road, Upper Sheringham, Norfolk NR26 8TU
1.00pm to 4.00pm
hosted by
The MS Society North Norfolk Branch
You are invited to join us to hear about the wide range of support and
service available for local people affected by MS.
Cancer patient loses benefits after DWP lists her as dead.
Friday 2 November 2012
KING’S LYNN: Cancer patient loses benefits after DWP lists her as dead.
Eileen Callaby is angry that her benefits were stopped after the DWP thought she was dead.
Weeks after surviving a cancer operation, a patient received a letter stating that her benefits had been cancelled as she had died.
Eileen Callaby says her recovery from lung cancer is being hampered due to the financial worry created by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stopping her benefits after mistakenly listing her as dead.
Mrs Callaby , 52, who lives with her son Peter in Queen Elizabeth Avenue, Gaywood, even had to visit Lynn Job Centre on Monday with her birth certificate to prove that she is alive.
She is waiting for to start chemotherapy after having sections of her lung removed in September.
Mrs Callaby is calling for improvements in the DWP after section failed to communicate with another that she was alive.
She said: “I don’t understand where it came from that I had died.
Dementia singing groups aiming to branch out
A group which runs successful singing sessions for people with dementia and their carers has officially launched as an organisation in its own right, as it aims to help set up more sessions.
Kim Briscoe Saturday, October 27, 2012
10:00 AM
Come Singing started four years ago as an offshoot of a Norwich Alzheimer’s Society singing group, but now offers 17 sessions a month in care homes, day centres and for the general public in Northfields and Marion Road in Norwich, in Costessey and New Costessey, Colney and Wymondham,
Heather Edwards, from The Avenues, set up the first session as her father had dementia and as a music lecturer for the University of East Anglia she could see how people with dementia responded to music and search shows that musical memory survives relatively well in dementia.
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