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£50m set aside for dementia patients

October 25, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt makes fund available to create calming environments in treatment of dementia

 

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has made £50m available to create calming environments for people with dementia.

A new fund of £50m to create calming environments for people with dementia, which aid treatment by helping sufferers to avoid confusion, will be announced on Thursday by the health secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The money will be available to NHS trusts and local authorities working in partnership with social care providers to help tailor hospitals and care homes to the needs of those with dementia.

Hunt’s aides claim that the announcement puts the care of sufferers at the heart of his priorities in a week when abusive workers from Winterbourne View care home are sentenced for assaulting elderly and frail patients.

But critics point out that the money will make an insignificant impact upon the key problem within the sector. It does not address long term funding for thousands of sufferers who need constant care but are increasingly left to fend for themselves in the private sector.

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Dilemma of Northern Ireland dementia victims

October 25, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, stigma

25 October 2012 Last updated at 06:18

Many people with dementia in Northern Ireland are not dying where they would prefer, with their families unaware of their end-of-life wishes.

According to the Alzheimer’s Society, many families are unaware of their loved ones wishes because of a double stigma around dementia and death.

The charity is calling for a greater awareness about planning end of life care.

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Closure plan for Sheffield dementia centres

October 24, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

24 October 2012 Last updated at 09:48

Two of Sheffield’s three dementia support centres may be closed.

Councillors will be asked to consider closing the Norbury Centre in Fir Vale and Bole Hill View in Crookes.

Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust, which runs the centres, and the city council, which funds them, said the plan would save £835,000.

The money will be used to improve the remaining centre, Hurlfield View at Arbour, and provide more services to people at home.

The proposal follows a consultation period, during which people with dementia and their carers were asked to give feedback on the services they received and how they could be improved.

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