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Easter event boosts the funds of a caring group
A group of dementia sufferers and their carers have held an Easter event.
There was an Easter bonnet parade, raffle and guitarist Richard Wadey entertained guests.
Karen Wellard, Secretary of the Memory Conservatory, said: “It was a really great day; everyone enjoyed themselves and it was a real success.”
Participants designed Easter eggs and there was a competition for the best Easter bonnet. The raffle also raised over £100 for the Memory Conservatory.
Karen said: “As the Memory Conservatory is free we do a raffle so people can feel like they’re helping.”
The Memory Conservatory is a self-funding charity set up by retired matron Rosemarie Stephens.
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.
