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Yoga can help Alzheimer carers cope
Yoga can help Alzheimer’s carers to cope better and improve their quality of life, according to new research.
[Posted: Wed 14/03/2012 www.irishhealth.com]
By Gillian Tsoi
Researchers in the US suggest that using yoga to engage in very brief, simple daily meditation can lead to improved brain power and lower levels of depression for caregivers.
The study, from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), looked at 49 caregivers from 45-91 years old who were taking care of their relatives with dementia.
MP tells of Alzheimer’s grief
Protest … members of Alzheimer’s Society with MP David Miliband.
MP David Miliband yesterday revealed his first-hand experience of the impact of Alzheimer’s, when he was lobbied to save a vital support worker’s job.
He told carers who are urging him to act that his grandmother had suffered from the devastating illness.
June Coser, 80, chairman of the South Tyneside Alzheimer’s Carers Funding Committee, said she was moved by his words – and believed he would do all he could to help.
She said: “Mr Miliband explained to us that it was a subject close to his heart. He described how his mother had to look after his grandmother, and the distress it had caused.
CARE OF DEMENTIA PATIENTS ‘BEGGARS BELIEF’ SAYS FIONA PHILLIPS
TV presenter Fiona Phillips yesterday condemned the care of Alzheimer’s patients in Britain and said it “beggars belief” that sufferers are left to “get on with it” without proper support.
Saturday March 10,2012
By Jo Wiley
The former GMTV host spoke movingly of her own plight dealing with the disease just weeks after the death of her beloved father Neville.
Speaking at an international conference on Alzheimer’s, she says she feels he was let down at the end of his life.
He was left a shadow of his former self, “totally out of it” on a cocktail of “chemical cosh” dementia drugs.
