Tag Archives: alzheimers

Almost 300,000 people who suffer dementia only venture outside once a week

September 3, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Dementia: hundreds of thousands who rarely go outside

Almost 300,000 people who suffer dementia only venture outside once a week at the most and tens of thousands have given up doing so altogether, a study has found.

 

Hundreds of thousands of dementia sufferers rarely go outside, a study suggests
 

By , Social Affairs Editor

7:00AM BST 03 Sep 2013

Research by the Alzheimer’s Society highlighted how people suffering dementia feel increasingly trapped in their homes because of the difficulties of getting around.

The study called for a radical redesign of Britain’s cities – from shops to public transport – to accommodate growing numbers of people with conditions such as Alzheimer’s as the population ages.

It included a rare poll of dementia sufferers, completed with the help of carers, which found that more than two thirds are reluctant to venture outside for fear of becoming confused and getting lost or difficulties using transport or shops.

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Rooms worth remembering are set up at hospital

August 29, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

FOUR pop-up 1950s living rooms worth £4,500 have been bought by Burton’s Queen’s Hospital to help elderly patients with dementia.

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Derby Telegraph

The reminiscence pods, known as RemPods, contain decade-appropriate décor, furnishings, period newspapers and magazines, a television playing recordings of old black and white shows and an old-style radio.

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    The RemPods can act as a talking point to help people with dementia.

Patients and visitors to the hospital were first shown a RemPod during national Dementia Awareness Week in May this year, when one was set up in the main corridor.

This demonstration led to Burton’s hospitals’ League of Friends’ decision to buy RemPods for the trust’s three hospital sites – Queen’s, Samuel Johnson Community Hospital, in Lichfield, and the Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital, in Tamworth – and they are due to be delivered next week.

The remaining three will go to the two other hospitals.

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Why is it that the Dementia Friendly Community initiative attracts a mere pittance of funding?

August 25, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Guest blog from Carol Munt 

munt12@aol.com

Dementia Friendly Communities ……… half a day a week or what?

It’s taken me a couple of days to start to write this blog.

I’m a left handed Sagittarian (for those of you who want to know), I’m not a placid or patient person and there are some things that really annoy me.

And I do mean really annoy me, even though I try very hard to take an unbiased view, make allowances and tell myself it isn’t the end of the earth.

So here goes…. my blog or rant, depends how you see it, for the Bank Holiday weekend.

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