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Dementia hub network plan for Norfolk and Suffolk
Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance launch event in Norwich. Willie Cruickshank of Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance.
Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance launch event in Norwich. Willie Cruickshank of Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance.Photo: Steve Adams
Adam Gretton Health correspondent Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:30 AM
A network of dementia education hubs are set to be created across Norfolk and Suffolk to help improve awareness and support for the condition, which affects one in four people over the age of 65.
The director of Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance yesterday said the organisation was looking to invest £200,000 in helping to establish around 30 community dementia learning hubs across the two counties to give more support to patients and their carers.
Willie Cruickshank told a Norfolk Older Peoples’ Forum meeting that the organisation was working with other charities such as Age UK, the Alzheimer’s Society and Sue Ryder Care to help establish the hubs within a 15 mile radius of each other to raise awareness of dementia. He added that the hubs would aim to build on places that already had dementia cafes and had become or were becoming dementia friendly communities such as Wymondham, Swaffham and Wells.
Lowestoft care hub will help older carers find jobs
A disability charity has launched a new centre for the Lowestoft area
A disability charity has launched a new centre for the Lowestoft area which will provide support to family carers who would like to start work again.
The Care Hub in London Road South in the Kirkley area will help carers by offering them training and support to help them get back into paid work.
Run by the Papworth Trust, the hub is a free daytime and evening drop-in centre and is aimed at people aged 55 and over and whose caring responsibilities have meant they have had to take a break from work.
Based at the Papworth Trust Waveney Centre, The Care Hub will offer training courses in health and social care, which will feature modules on medication, food hygiene, fire safety and the principles of person-centred care, in a bid to help carers get back into employment.
It will also provide carers with financial advice and information on benefits.
Call for Norfolk groups to work together to give louder voice for cancer patients
“We will not settle for the status quo”.
Cancer summit meeting at the Assembly House in Norwich. Jean Mossman. Photo: Bill Smith
Adam Gretton, Health correspondent Wednesday, September 25, 2013
6:30 AM
“We will not settle for the status quo”. That was the message from cancer patients, carers and support group officials yesterday at a cancer conference in Norwich.
Forty delegates from a host of charities and support groups gathered for the first Norfolk Voices for Cancer event, which is aimed to give patients a stronger voice by joining forces.
The summit at the Assembly House was organised following the disbandment of the Anglia Cancer Network earlier this year as a result of a major reform of the NHS.
