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Dementia sufferer from Esher gets £7,000 refund on burglar alarm
10:00am Saturday 17th November 2012
Beware of Cold Callers
An elderly dementia sufferer from Esher was hailed in National Consumer Week, after a refund of more than £7,000 from traders who sold her a ‘free’ burglar alarm.
Nesta Hollis, 77, was recovering from two strokes when she was approached by cold-callers at her door, selling what turned out to be a 15-year servicing and monitoring contract costing thousands.
Trial could cut agonising wait for dementia diagnosis
Government-backed assessment service trial will see Cambridge Cognition’s state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies placed in the community
The traditional path to diagnosing dementia is long and slow, often taking 18 months of agonised waiting.
Now this could be set to change with a government-backed trial of a dementia assessment service that aims to cut this to just three months.
It is being called a “paradigm shift” as it depends on placing state-of-the-art diagnostic technologies in the community where people can access them quickly and easily.
According to senior lecturer and honorary consultant neurologist Dr Dennis Chan, this trial – dubbed the Brain Health Centre initiative – will accelerate access to the kind of evaluation currently available in only regional centres of excellence in hospital clinics.
”I have dementia, but I still have a life to live”
”I have dementia, but I still have a life to live”
15 November 2012
How to respond to the growing challenge of dementia with patchy levels of diagnosis, care and support were among the issues discussed at Public Service Events’ Dementia, a National Crisis conference in Manchester. Caroline Pennington reports
October saw the new Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promise that NHS dementia care in England would be the best in the world by 2015. A week prior to this bold affirmation the mood on the challenge of dementia at the Manchester conference centre was one of hesitant optimism gritted with realism.
Andrew Chidgey, director of external affairs at the Alzheimer’s Society, reminded delegates of the pervasive nature of the illness. “It is the personal experience of people living with dementia, their carers and families, which people are finding very difficult,” he said. “People are being diagnosed late, or not at all. People often are not getting the care and support – at the right time – that they need.”
