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Help is on hand for dementia sufferers in Worcester
A CARE home is opening its doors to people who look after loved ones or friends with dementia.
8:10am Sunday 20th May 2012
A CARE home is opening its doors to people who look after loved ones or friends with dementia.
Regent Care Home in School Road, St John’s, is hosting a dementia awareness afternoon between 2pm and 4pm tomorrow, where carers can find out more about the support available to them.
The GPS ‘smart shoe’ that can track Alzheimer’s sufferers on Google Maps if they go missing
GPS technology can help Alzheimer’s sufferers and their carers, with the release of a shoe that tracks the wearer’s position and plots their position on Google Maps.
By Eddie Wrenn
PUBLISHED: 15:11, 18 May 2012 | UPDATED: 15:33, 18 May 2012
GPS technology can help Alzheimer’s sufferers and their carers, with the release of a shoe that tracks the wearer’s position and plots their position on Google Maps.
The GPS Smart Shoe embeds a GPS receiver and SIM card to send the shoe’s position to a private tracking website – helping to find people if they wander off.
With 800,000 sufferers in the UK – which is predicted to expand to one million within the next decade, manufacture Aetrex said they wanted to use technology to enable extra support.
The shoes and the GPS receiver sends co-ordinates to a tracking website, so they can be found if they go missing
The shoes are available for both men and women, with either straps or shoelaces, and goes for around £300 a pair, with a monthly service plan of £30.
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.
