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Dementia sufferers wait for a year for diagnosis: report
Dementia sufferers are waiting up to a year for a diagnosis, MPs have warned, as they called for an end to ‘shocking variation’ in standards around the country.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
6:20AM BST 03 Jul 2012
Fewer than half of people thought to have dementia have been formally diagnosed and those who have been seen may have waited anything from a few weeks to a year, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia has found.
The average wait for an appointment in a memory clinic, which is a key part of the diagnostic process, is three months, the report said.
Stepping outdoors with Sheffield dementia patients
Published on Monday 2 July 2012 09:44
A CARE home in Sheffield is promoting a sunny, green-fingered approach to life as it takes part in a national survey on dementia care.
Springwood Residential Home, on Herries Road, is part of a chain of 11 homes operated across the city by charitable organisation SheffCare.
The home, which has a number of residents living with dementia, has been chosen by environmental design expert Dr Garuth Chalfont to participate in research into the ways connections to the natural world can benefit residents with dementia.
Angus launch of Butterfly Scheme to improve the safety and wellbeing of patients with dementia
The scheme allows people whose memory is affected by dementia to opt-in to having a discreet butterfly symbol placed next to their name.
NHS Tayside has launched the ground-breaking Butterfly Scheme for acute hospitals in Angus, which aims to improve the safety and wellbeing of patients with dementia.
The Butterfly Scheme was officially launched in Perth Royal Infirmary in January by founder Barbara Hodkinson and is now being adopted across all acute hospital sites in NHS Tayside, the first Board in Scotland to adopt the scheme. Barbara, a carer whose mother had dementia, officially launched the scheme for Ninewells and Royal Victoria Hospitals on Thursday and, on Friday, was in Forfar to mark the roll- out of the scheme to Whitehills Health and Community Care Centre, Stracathro Hospital and Arbroath Infirmary.
