Dementia care home launches £2.5m campaign
A specialist dementia care home which prides itself on putting the patient at the heart of everything it does.
9:30am Saturday 14th April 2012 in News By Amanda Williams
IF SHE could have, Alice Beck would have nursed husband Peter ‘until the bitter end’.
The couple met and fell in love more than 40 years ago when they discovered a shared passion for music and art while at a wedding.
But when helping Mr Beck, 90, who has acute dementia, eventually became too much for Mrs Beck, she took the heartbreaking decision to put him in a home.
Mrs Beck chose Vale House, a specialist dementia care home which prides itself on putting the patient at the heart of everything it does.
And now a £2.5m fundraising drive has been launched to secure the future of the much-loved centre.
The not-for-profit home was set up in 1990 in Botley by a group of a volunteers.
Carers do it for love not money
Most genuine carers would gladly give up the pittance paid to them in benefits to have a more normal and stress free life.
I THINK it is wise to have some experience of a subject before voicing opinions.
D Hewitt, of Newcastle, (Sentinel, April 7) obviously has none otherwise he or she would not have come out with such a narrow view on carers.
I however, do speak from experience. I have raised a child with Prader-Willi syndrome which is a very difficult and stressful condition to cope with.
I have a husband who has manic depressive illness and I have recently helped my aged mother nurse my lovely father, who was suffering with dementia, until his death.
Anger at increase in costs for adult care
Pensioners are set to be hit in the pocket as the cost of day care rises by up to 1,200 per cent as Peterborough City Council puts up its charges.
By BEN TRUSLOVE
Published on Thursday 12 April 2012 09:24
Ivy Carafa (93) goes to Greenwood House care home from Monday to Friday but may have to reconsider with the increase in charges.
Before January she paid £2 a day, when the charge increased to £13 a day, and it is now due to rise to £24 a day from April 23. The latest rise will mean she is spending more on care than she receives in her monthly pension and it may force her son Richard to stop work to care for her.
