Tag Archives: alzheimers
Government is to drop the planned excellence award for social care providers
Social care providers’ excellence award to be ditched
The government is to drop the planned excellence award for social care providers after it was universally rejected by the sector.
Care Quality Commission chair Jo Williams said today she saw no prospect of the scheme going ahead after it had receievd a “universal thumbs down” by providers’ bodies and organisations such as the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services in a CQC consultation that closed last month.
Alzheimers charity song -Dripping away from You
Alzheimers charity song by Cardiff songwriter gets semi-finalist position in UK Songwriting Contest
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65 year old baby boomer has a one in eight chance of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
Can Baby Boomers Dodge the Alzheimer’s Bullet?
They say timing is everything….
by Bob Demarco, Alzheimer’s Reading Room
Back on January 4th I submitted a story on Alzheimer’s disease for publication in three community magazines in northern New Jersey. This was the first time I had done something like this.
Here is the first sentence:
A 65 year old baby boomer has a one in eight chance of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Starting today, and over the weekend, you are going to hear those words repeated over and over on television and in the news.
