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Dementia home builds 1950s street to help residents feel at home
Residents can even relive fond memories of their youth by reading newspapers and magazines from the period.
Carers have built a 50s street so dementia patients feel at home.
The Memory Lane features an old fashioned post office, greengrocers, phone box, pub, ration books and old tobacco tins.
Residents can even relive fond memories of their youth by reading newspapers and magazines from the period, detailing the Queen’s Coronation.
They are also able to peruse 1950s products in the Greengrocers, use the original weighing scales and choose fresh handmade cakes from the window.
‘I was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s at 52’
Ann Johnson moved into a care home in Greater Manchester soon after she was diagnosed with dementia six years ago. Nothing unusual in that perhaps, except that Ann was then just 52 years old.
She has early-onset Alzheimer’s, something which affects 5% of people with the disease, and she is passionate about talking about it.
A former nurse and lecturer at the University of Manchester, she is no stranger to the disease. She and her mother watched her father suffer with Alzheimer’s over many years before he died.
Down’s syndrome patient challenges resuscitation order
By Jane Dreaper Health correspondent, BBC NewsA man with Down’s syndrome is suing an NHS trust over a hospital’s decision to issue a do-not-resuscitate order giving his disability as one of the reasons.
The instruction not to attempt resuscitation in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest was issued without his family’s knowledge.
Their lawyers describe the order as “blatant discrimination”.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust says it complied fully with guidance from professional bodies.
