Tag Archives: Older care
Motorcyclists help to deliver Easter treats to residents at Halsey House Care Home
More than 50 bikers rallied together in Cromer today (Saturday) to deliver some special Easter treats to the residents of a Royal British Legion (RBL) care home.
More than 50 bikers rallied together in Cromer today (Saturday) to deliver some special people.
The Saturday Morning Club riders from North Elmham made the trip to raise money for the RBL’s Poppy Appeal and also to bring the residents of Halsey House, off Norwich Road, a selection of chocolates and biscuits.
Motorcyclist Ian Taylor, who helped to co-ordinate the event, said: “We are a fairly large club and our main objective is to enjoy ourselves and raise money for charity.
Dementia care home launches £2.5m campaign
A specialist dementia care home which prides itself on putting the patient at the heart of everything it does.
9:30am Saturday 14th April 2012 in News By Amanda Williams
IF SHE could have, Alice Beck would have nursed husband Peter ‘until the bitter end’.
The couple met and fell in love more than 40 years ago when they discovered a shared passion for music and art while at a wedding.
But when helping Mr Beck, 90, who has acute dementia, eventually became too much for Mrs Beck, she took the heartbreaking decision to put him in a home.
Mrs Beck chose Vale House, a specialist dementia care home which prides itself on putting the patient at the heart of everything it does.
And now a £2.5m fundraising drive has been launched to secure the future of the much-loved centre.
The not-for-profit home was set up in 1990 in Botley by a group of a volunteers.
Telecare: what’s happened to the whole system demonstrators?
The patient from hell asks when the lessons from the WSD will be shared and what the delay means for the future of telecare
I am in despair about the future of telecare. You will remember that a trial, called the whole system demonstrator, covering 6000 long-term patients in Kent, Newham and Cornwall, has been chuntering along for about three years. In June last year, a Kings Fund conference announced relatively upbeat preliminary findings for the WSD. The full report was supposed to be imminent. But autumn and winter came and went, and still the report did not appear. We were told that it was just going through the necessary “peer review” process.
At the beginning of March, the Kings Fund held a two-day international congress on telehealth and telecare. Ah, thought I, naively, this is when the WSD report will finally be launched in all its glory, and will give a massive boost to the swift roll-out of telecare across the country.
