Tag Archives: dementia
Help for carers who care for someone with dementia in the UK
Vital help on offer for carers
11:25am Thursday 4th August 2011
Did your readers know that there are currently 750,000 people with Alzheimer’s or dementia in the UK?
This number is set to rise to over a million people with dementia within ten years.
Caring for a loved one with dementia can be a lonely, stressful experience. The feeling of disconnection is hardest to bear.
There may be precious moments of clarity, when memories return and the years roll away, but for the most part carers have to watch their loved ones drifting slowly away.
Boost for North Yorkshire respite care centres
Improvements for adult day care in North Yorkshire
9:33am Thursday 28th July 2011
By Mark Stead » Political Reporter
MILLIONS of pounds are to be spent on bringing adult day care in North Yorkshire up to date.
The £3.8 million package of improvements to Selby Day Activity Centre will include the creation of a new four-bed respite unit after the facility was marked out as needing work to bring it up to modern standards.
New dementia centre opens in Harford, Norwich
Improving the lives of dementia sufferers in Norwich.
Lucy Wright Thursday, July 28, 2011
10.50 AM
Dementia sufferers gathered with staff and their carers yesterday to celebrate the opening of a new centre in Norwich.
Harford Hill dementia centre, in Ipswich Road, will care for up to 25 people and the £90,000 project involved altering, improving and furnishing an existing building on the same site as the council-run Learning Difficulties resource centre.
