Tag Archives: dementia
Young dementia patients given helping hand
Young dementia patients given helping hand
Published on Monday 11 April 2011 08:21
CARERS looking after Doncaster’s youngest victims of dementia have been given a boost, thanks to a brand new centre in the borough.
Doncaster carer and service user group People Relying on People opened its new meeting place at Fulwood Lodge, St Catherine’s Close, in Balby.
DNA Changes Affect Age Of Dementia Onset, UK
DNA Changes Affect Age Of Dementia Onset, UK
Article Date: 07 Apr 2011
Exciting research which sheds light on the processes that take place during early onset dementia was revealed at an event in London.
Dr Emma Jones from Kings College was speaking at a research roadshow hosted by Alzheimer’s Society.
Dr Jones has found that it is not just changes within specific genes that can affect the age that a person develops dementia but that changes outside of these genes may also be important. She found that if a small section of DNA was present close to the Alzheimer’s associated gene, APP, then individuals developed dementia earlier.
What is the future for Care Homes?
What’s the future of care homes?
Vern Pitt
Wednesday 06 April 2011 10:57
Care homes are struggling to come to terms with fewer local authority contracts and politicians’ preference for independent living. How can the sector respond, asks Vern Pitt
The country’s biggest residential care provider, Southern Cross Healthcare, last month ran into serious financial trouble raising fears that similar problems could spread through the sector.
