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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.
Doctors to see patients by video link
Doctors to see patients by video link
The Medical Director of the NHS has said that new broadband technology could allow patients to see doctors remotely as a matter of routine, and that the NHS could even use foreign experts
By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor
4:23PM BST 07 Jul 2011
Doctors will routinely use new broadband video technology to consult patients in their homes within “a year rather than a decade”, the NHS’s medical director has said.
Judge ‘troubled’ by care ruling
Judge ‘troubled’ by care ruling
PA
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Supreme Court justice Lady Hale – a member of the five-strong judges’ panel which made the ruling – told of her fears that older people “might be left lying in faeces” because local authorities would be entitled to withdraw help.
Campaigning charity Age UK described the ruling as “shameful” and suggested that it could lead to the infirm being forced to “sleep in their own urine”.
