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Actress supports dementia awareness
21 May 2012 Last updated at 06:08
By Adam Brimelow Health Correspondent, BBC News
Carey Mulligan tells the BBC’s Adam Brimelow about her grandmother’s Alzheimer’s
A poll has suggested more than four out of 10 people know – or have known – someone with dementia.
The Yougov survey indicates strong concern about dementia across all ages.
It suggests young adults are most likely to want to learn more about the condition.
Help is on hand for dementia sufferers in Worcester
A CARE home is opening its doors to people who look after loved ones or friends with dementia.
8:10am Sunday 20th May 2012
A CARE home is opening its doors to people who look after loved ones or friends with dementia.
Regent Care Home in School Road, St John’s, is hosting a dementia awareness afternoon between 2pm and 4pm tomorrow, where carers can find out more about the support available to them.
Aberdeen dementia patient ‘had 106 paid carers’
Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.
By Eleanor Bradford BBC Scotland Health Correspondent
A woman has claimed her husband, who had dementia, was given 106 different carers in a single year.
Jeanette Maitland said the constant stream of different faces sent by agencies working for Aberdeen’s social work department contravened her husband Ken’s basic human right to dignity.
Mr Maitland died from a dementia-related illness last week.
Aberdeen City Council has pledged to look into the concerns his wife has raised.
Mrs Maitland told BBC Scotland she initially wrote down the names of her husband’s carers so that she could get to know them.
