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Dementia Without Walls project launched
Dementia Without Walls project launched
10:11am Saturday 9th July 2011
A PROJECT to improve York for residents with dementia and their families has been launched during Dementia Awareness Week.
The year-long project, Dementia Without Walls, will work with people with dementia and their relatives to challenge people to think about how the city can become more ‘dementia-friendly’. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)-funded project will examine health and social care services as well as how housing and everyday amenities such as shopping, leisure and transport can adapt to meet the needs of people with dementia.
Hartlepool Carers has been named as Sainsbury’s charity for this year.
Supermarket supports carers
Hartlepool Carers has been named as Sainsbury’s charity for this year. Pictured front right is store charity co-ordinator Katie Lisle with customer service assistant Sammi Smith, left, with staff from the carers’ centre in Lowthian Road, Hartlepool
KIND-HEARTED supermarket customers have chosen a town charity to benefit from their support.
Hartlepool Carers will be the official charity of Sainsbury’s, in Middle Warren, for the next 12 months.
Staff at the store, in Mulberry Rise, asked their customers and colleagues to nominate their chosen charity for the supermarket to support.
Researchers in Norwich have helped towards finding a cure for cancer
Norwich scientists work on rat that is immune to cancer and might offer medical miracle
David Bale Thursday, July 7, 2011 4:27 PM
The Naked Mole Rat is resistant to cancer.
Researchers in Norwich have helped towards finding a cure for cancer, after taking a step towards understanding why an African rat lives for 30 years and is resistant to the killer disease.
Staff at the Genome Analysis Centre at Norwich Research Park have been working with colleagues from the University of Liverpool on finding cures for diseases of old age, particularly cancer.
And their work has focused on the naked mole-rat which is native to the deserts of East Africa, lives underground, is impervious to pain and can survive despite the depleted oxygen levels in its burrows.
