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Golfers tee-off in first pan disabled open tournament
Thursday, 01 August 2013
MORE than 60 golfers with disabilities flocked to High Barnet on Monday for the UK’s first ever pan-disabled Open Golf tournament.
Taking a swing: One golfer taking part
The event organised by The Golf Trust, an inclusive golfing charity, was held at The Shire London golf course in St Albans Road and brought together disabled golfers of all ages and abilities including amputees, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s sufferers, stroke survivors, blind, deaf and visually impaired people, as well as golf enthusiasts with learning difficulties.
Singing brings harmony to sufferers of dementia
Dementia is not something anyone would like to associate with their own future.
Rutland Reminders’ volunteers get together for a singing session. They are from left, Clare Hitchcox, Pam Houlden, Janet Berridge, Dr Charles Lawrence, Diana Ellard, Ann Thomas, Mike Gee, Ruth Thomas-Twinn and Gill Lawrence.
Dementia is not something anyone would like to associate with their own future.
Unless you have had direct experience of it, usually by way of an elderly relative, it’s a thing, like death, that most of us don’t like to think about.
And yet the World Heath Organisation describes dementia as the next global health time bomb: one in four people over 65 will develop it.
A huge worldwide increase in numbers is largely down to increased longevity. The Alzheimer’s Society estimates there are 800,000 sufferers in the UK, only a minority of whom have been diagnosed and who are mostly looked after by an estimated 600,000 unpaid carers.
Rutland Reminders is a group that was set up by a teacher in 2010 to help local sufferers.
The Norfolk Hospice recognises importance of supporting carers
The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House recognises importance of supporting carers
By DAVID BLACKMORE Saturday, September 22, 2012
8:00 AM
The Norfolk Hospice, Tapping House yesterday launched an appeal to raise £750,000 to improve palliative care services in the county. In the second of our five-part series, the EDP spoke to two carers who benefit from the charity’s practical and emotional support.
Caring for her husband is a 24/7 job for Doreen Hannant so any offer of a respite – no matter how small – is one she grabs with both hands.
Her husband John was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease six years ago and last year was also diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
