Tag Archives: dementia

Minister for Care, Norman Lamb to visit care home

May 16, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, Norfolk

MP to tour Mundesley care home to see dementia work

Thursday, May 16, 2013
6:30 AM

A care home in north Norfolk will be showcasing its nationally recognised facilities to North Norfolk MP and Minister for Care, Norman Lamb tomorrow Friday May 17.

Mr Lamb will pay a visit to the Munhaven Care Home in Mundesley, a 20-bed care home that specialises in dementia care, ahead of Dementia Awareness Week which runs from May 19-24.

The home was a finalist at the National Dementia Care Awards in November 2012 in the best dementia care home category and is run by NorseCare, the care company set up by Norfolk County Council. It manages 25 care homes and 14 housing with care schemes.

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Modern life causing dementia earlier, study finds

May 13, 2013   Alzheimer’s, Carers, dementia, internet

Modern life is causing people to suffer dementia earlier than ever before, a study has found, with PCs, mobile phones, chemicals and electronic devices to blame.

Total neurological deaths in both men and women rose significantly in 16 of the countries covered by the research

6:55PM BST 12 May 2013

Researchers found a sharp rise in the deaths from dementia and other neurological disease in under-74s, and believe that the figures cannot be explained away by the fact we live longer.

Instead the “epidemic” is down to the environmental and social changes in the modern world, the authors claim.

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Bleak outlook ahead because of the cuts to social care

May 8, 2013   Carers, dementia, disability, mental health, Older care, Social care

Extra investment ‘needed to make care cap work’

By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News

 Social-care budgets have already been squeezed in the past few years

The government’s commitment to reform social care will require greater investment, ministers have been told.

A bill limiting the cost to disabled and elderly people of their social care will form part of the government’s legislative programme for the next year, the Queen’s Speech revealed.

Previously ministers had proposed introducing a cap of £72,000 in 2016.

But campaigners and council chiefs told ministers budget cuts were already putting the system at risk.

Research by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) suggests the £16bn budget for social care, including services for both elderly and disabled people, is likely to be trimmed by £800m in the next 12 months.

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