Tag Archives: alzheimers
Help for carers who care for someone with dementia in the UK
Vital help on offer for carers
11:25am Thursday 4th August 2011
Did your readers know that there are currently 750,000 people with Alzheimer’s or dementia in the UK?
This number is set to rise to over a million people with dementia within ten years.
Caring for a loved one with dementia can be a lonely, stressful experience. The feeling of disconnection is hardest to bear.
There may be precious moments of clarity, when memories return and the years roll away, but for the most part carers have to watch their loved ones drifting slowly away.
New dementia centre opens in Harford, Norwich
Improving the lives of dementia sufferers in Norwich.
Lucy Wright Thursday, July 28, 2011
10.50 AM
Dementia sufferers gathered with staff and their carers yesterday to celebrate the opening of a new centre in Norwich.
Harford Hill dementia centre, in Ipswich Road, will care for up to 25 people and the £90,000 project involved altering, improving and furnishing an existing building on the same site as the council-run Learning Difficulties resource centre.
Elderly care: expert to review quality and regulation
Ministers will today set up an independent review of elderly care in England, as the health watchdog publishes a damning report into the private provider exposed by Panorama.
10:00PM BST 27 Jul 2011
An expert in the sector will look into how “quality and regulation” can be improved amid growing concern that pensioners and disabled people are receiving substandard treatment from the NHS and local councils.
The Department of Health believes the failures at the private hospital run by Castlebeck, where undercover filming exposed the abuse of adults with learning disabilities, are “totally unacceptable”.
Whitehall sources say they will not tolerate poor standards at a company paid millions of pounds by taxpayers to protect some of society’s most vulnerable members.
