Tag Archives: alzheimers

Improving dementia care

NHS Memory Services receive £10 million injection

Press Release from the Department of Health

£10 million is being made available to kick start a transformation in the way people with dementia are treated by the NHS, Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow announced today. The extra funding for memory services will help to identify people with dementia earlier and treat them more effectively.

Knutsford council are ignoring “the needs of the ill or disabled or their exhausted and impoverished carers

Austerity begins at home: Cuts bite among Chancellor’s constituents

 

He said we’re all in it together – but few believed him. Now George Osborne faces anger in his back yard, as his economic ‘Plan A’ takes its toll. Paul Vallely reports 

Saturday, 10 September 2011 

We’ve never had so many members of the public come to a meeting, said the bewildered Conservative leader of Cheshire East County Council, Wesley Fitzgerald, at the start of its cabinet meeting this week. It was so packed that they had to move the councillors’ seating to accommodate the public. 

Song Commemorating Alzheimer’s & Dementia Patients

Song Commemorating Alzheimer’s & Dementia Patients

Tom Janicik and Patricia Mock’s song titled “Just Keep Holding On’ was inspired by the impact of Alzheimer’s on both of their Mom’s and their family’s lives. Please check out this video and share with us how you feel this song/video might make a difference in other people’s lives who are trying to cope with this devastating disease …

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