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Pioneering music therapy for dementia patients developed in East Lancashire
12:09pm Friday 10th August 2012 in Health By Catherine Pye, Health reporter
DEMENTIA carers are being encouraged to ‘whistle while they work’ as part of a new scheme to be launched in East Lancashire.
Burnley-based Crossroads Care East Lancashire are looking for about 20 families who want to take part in a trial of a technique called Music Therapy Care Giving (MTC).
The idea, which originated in Sweden, is that carers of dementia patients will be taught to sing while they carry out their day-to-day jobs, with the hope that the patient will join in too.
How to navigate the care fees maze
Your long-term care questions answered
PUBLISHED: 07:44, 10 August 2012 | UPDATED: 07:44, 10 August 2012
After the recent White Paper on social care failed to address the all-important question of how long term care will be funded in the future, This is Money received a flurry of questions from concerned readers about how this might affect their circumstances.
Most revolve around what will happen to people’s home and savings if they need long-term care.
We’ve put a selection of your questions to Alex Edmans, SAGA’s care funding expert.
Paying for care: your questions answered
Will my autistic son be hit if I need care?
My home is in joint names with my son. As I get older (I am 68) if I need care how would he be affected? He is a 29 year old high level autistic and is deemed by government as not suitable for employment. SB.
The rules governing the treatment of property in the financial assessment to pay for long-term residential care include a number of instances when the value of a property should be disregarded.
Poor care at homes leads to thousand of elderly being admitted to hospital
Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are admitted to hospital as emergencies because of poor care in the community, a study has found.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
7:00AM BST 09 Aug 2012
The failure of GPs, community health services and social care services to work together means large numbers of over 65s are admitted to hospitals, the King’s Fund think tank has found.
Researchers found that 2.3m overnight stays in hospital could be prevented if all areas of the country performed as well as the top 25 per cent.
This is the equivalent of 7,000 hospital beds, or several medium sized hospitals full of elderly emergency cases every night of the year.
