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£50m set aside for dementia patients

October 25, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt makes fund available to create calming environments in treatment of dementia

 

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has made £50m available to create calming environments for people with dementia.

A new fund of £50m to create calming environments for people with dementia, which aid treatment by helping sufferers to avoid confusion, will be announced on Thursday by the health secretary Jeremy Hunt.

The money will be available to NHS trusts and local authorities working in partnership with social care providers to help tailor hospitals and care homes to the needs of those with dementia.

Hunt’s aides claim that the announcement puts the care of sufferers at the heart of his priorities in a week when abusive workers from Winterbourne View care home are sentenced for assaulting elderly and frail patients.

But critics point out that the money will make an insignificant impact upon the key problem within the sector. It does not address long term funding for thousands of sufferers who need constant care but are increasingly left to fend for themselves in the private sector.

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Dilemma of Northern Ireland dementia victims

October 25, 2012   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, stigma

25 October 2012 Last updated at 06:18

Many people with dementia in Northern Ireland are not dying where they would prefer, with their families unaware of their end-of-life wishes.

According to the Alzheimer’s Society, many families are unaware of their loved ones wishes because of a double stigma around dementia and death.

The charity is calling for a greater awareness about planning end of life care.

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£10,000 charity boost from Harrogate store

October 25, 2012   Carers

A Harrogate superstore is showing a trolley load of support for the district’s growing number of unpaid carers.

25 Oct, 2012 | Filed under: Community,Front Page,Harrogate | Posted by:
£10,000 charity boost from Harrogate store

Employees of Sainsbury’s store on Wetherby Road have forged close links with the Carers’ Resource – with many even becoming volunteers there – after the charity was adopted as its annual good cause for the second successive year.

And they marked partnership’s renewal by handing over £9,470 to the award-winning charity based on North Park Road – the proceeds of the store’s first year of fundraising.

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