Our struggle with dementia may be ‘blueprint for care’
Syd Mayne has praised the support he and his wife received
By SUE GYFORD
Published on Monday 7 May 2012 12:00
THE self-penned story of a man whose wife was diagnosed with dementia is to be sent to 14,000 care home workers around Britain to encourage them to treat their residents with compassion.
Syd Mayne, 78, wrote Journey into Loneliness after his wife Kate moved from their home in Bonnyrigg to Springfield Bank Care Home in December 2010.
The book charts their life together, the struggle their family faced when Kate was diagnosed with dementia, and the dedication of staff at the care home. The couple met at a dance at the Fountainbridge Palais in 1954, and had three children. Mr Mayne became a TV writer and then sports writer at The Scotsman, and his wife, now 80, worked as a nursery nurse.
Council boss ‘appalled’ after elderly woman left on bus overnight
How could this have happened
MISSING: The woman should have been returned to Jill Jenkins Court
THE chief executive of Luton Borough Council has described an incident in which an elderly woman with Alzheimer’s was left locked in a minbus overnight as “appalling”.
Trevor Holden said the council deeply regretted the distress caused to the woman and her family, adding: “We are deeply shocked that something has gone so seriously wrong.”
The woman, who is in her 80s, was left on the council minibus at the Kingsway depot on Monday night at 5.30pm, and was not discovered until 7am the following morning.
