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Dementia care apartments to be built in Redditch
A STATE-of-the-art development, including self-contained dementia care apartments aimed at keeping family and partners together, is being built in Redditch.
5:00pm Saturday 2nd February 2013 in News
The development, in Evesham Road, Headless Cross, will include 42 apartments along with communal facilities and a well-being centre.
The work involves the demolition of an existing building, built in the early 1900s and donated to the Red Cross by then owner Dorothy Terry, to be used as a care facility.
The new development will be known as Dorothy Terry House.
'Promising' dementia drug made from pigs' brains could help 200,000 sufferers
The new drug called cerebrolysin improves concentration, memory and mood among those suffering with vascular dementia
- The new drug is licensed in some countries but not in the UK or U.S.
- No serious side effects were reported from taking the drug
By Jenny Hope
PUBLISHED: 00:46, 31 January 2013 | UPDATED: 03:32, 31 January 2013
The new drug called cerebrolysin improves concentration, memory processing and mood in patients
Dementia sufferers may benefit from a ‘promising’ new treatment made from pigs’ brains, say researchers.
The new drug – called cerebrolysin – improves concentration, memory processing and mood in patients with a certain kind of dementia known as vascular dementia, which affects up to 200,000 Britons.
No treatment has yet been specifically developed for vascular dementia.
But the new drug is licensed in some countries for dementia, stroke and traumatic brain injury – although not yet here or in the US.
Researcher Li He of the Department of Neurology at Sichuan University in Sichuan, China, said ‘Our review suggests that Cerebrolysin can help improve cognitive and global function in patients with mild to moderate severity vascular dementia.’
Cerebrolysin is a drug made from pig brain proteins that has produced some positive results from small vascular dementia trials.
Larger trials are now underway.
But the drug is not easy to administer, with regular intravenous infusions necessary, says the review.
Bed cuts blow for dementia families
Published on Sunday 27 January 2013 16:00
Mental health workers and carers have hit out at plans to cut the number of beds available for dementia patients in the Lancaster district.
Families of dementia sufferers also reacted angrily to suggestions that new technology could bridge the distance gap if patients are sent to a new unit in Blackpool saying: “You can’t hold hands with an iPad”.
Mental health service provider Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust is proposing two options as part of streamlining measures, which would see the closure of the Altham Meadows Assessment Unit in Morecambe.
