We should have our own Dementiaville
Dementiaville, or Hogewey, as it’s actually called, was started 20 years ago a short distance from Amsterdam
Miriam Stoppard
I ’m putting my family on notice: when I start dwindling into dementia I want them to put me into “Dementiaville”, the experimental village complete with supermarket, hairdresser, pub and theatre in the Netherlands.
Trained staff and carers are disguised as waitresses, hairdressers, barmen and barmaids, friends and extended family members. Not for me those soulless hospital wards where 15 to 20 people sit motionless and expressionless watching TV, the monotony only relieved by meals and medication.
That’s not living. It’s a kind of dying. And we’re committing almost a million people with dementia a year to this living death. What surprises me is that as a medical profession, as a government and as a society, we stand by and allow this horrible state of affairs to continue.
Dementiaville, or Hogewey, as it’s actually called, was started 20 years ago a short distance from Amsterdam by a woman and five other founder members who were determined to give patients with dementia a decent life.
New admiral nurses will support carers in Armed Forces
A UNIQUE service to support the carers of those with dementia within the Armed Forces community is to be launched in Walsall.
The Royal British Legion, in partnership with Dementia UK, is looking to recruit three Admiral Nurses in the borough ahead of the initiative’s launch later this spring.
Specially trained in dementia care, the Legion’s Admiral Nurse Service will support the carers of those with dementia within the Armed Forces community, providing them with information, support and practical help.
Carers across Chichester get free football tickets
Free Tickets for carers
Free Tickets – Eric Geddes, Chief Executive of Crossroads Care South Care, with fellow carers Louise Spong, Pam Thomas and Steve Fisher. C120484-1 Chi Tickets Photo Louise Adams
CARERS will be able to watch a football match after being given free tickets by Portsmouth Football Club.
A total of 40 tickets have been offered to unpaid carers across the area through Crossroads Care South Central and the Carers Support Service, Chichester and Rural.
Crossroads Care helped secure the tickets and will provide alternative care arrangements where required for those carers attending the match.
