Caring for the carers with free activities
Carers Champions
FREE film screenings, cream teas and bus tours will be among activities on offer during Carers Week.
Unpaid carers and the people they look after are being treated to special events between June 18 and 24.
Carers Champions, sponsored by Call 24 and Plymouth City Council, are putting on a wide range of activities.
We salute work of carers in this Dementia Week
The devastating impact of Alzheimer’s, or dementia
Thursday, 24 May 2012
This week (May 21-27) is Dementia Awareness Week and I would like your readers to spare a thought for people across Northern Ireland, who are struggling with the relentless, debilitating advance of Alzheimer’s, or dementia, as well as those who care for them. I work for a disability charity called Vitalise. Each year, we welcome couples affected by Alzheimer’s, or dementia, to our respite centres for much-needed breaks.
Carers from Norwich and Norfolk complete daredevil jump to raise over £1,800 for the Stroke Association
David Freezer Thursday, May 24, 2012
6:30 AM
Carers from Norwich, Hingham and Kings Lynn took part in a daring ‘vertigo challenge’ to raise over £1,800 for the Stroke Association recently.
The group from Mears Care in Norfolk, teamed up with colleagues from Suffolk and Cambridgeshire for the challenge in Bedford on Sunday, May 20.
They had to climb to the roof of a wind tunnel tower via ladder before making an 125ft power fan jump off the side.
