Posted in News on Mar 4th, 2010
The government and the Alzheimer’s Society have both launched new campaigns to help support the nation’s 820,000 dementia sufferers. Care services minister Phil Hope is leading the ‘Living Well’ programme, which was developed after government research showed that a third of people are uncomfortable around dementia sufferers. The programmes will use TV and radio to [...]
Posted in News on Feb 12th, 2010
A new report from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust has revealed the scale on which dementia is underfunded in the UK compared to other conditions such as cancer, heart disease and stroke. The report estimates that around 822,000 people in the UK currently suffer from dementia – 17% more than previously thought – with this figure [...]
Posted in News on Jan 14th, 2010
Fiona Phillips has made a second Dispatches programme about her father’s battle with dementia and her own struggle to raise awareness of the condition. Since the first programme was aired in January 2009, Ms Phillips has become increasingly involved in campaigning for more help and support to be made available to dementia patients and [...]
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2010
The charity Alzheimer’s Society is demanding that all political parties need to make dementia care a priority when preparing their manifestos for the forthcoming election. It has published damning figures from new research, which show that less than a quarter of dementia sufferers feel that their needs are being adequately met, whilst even fewer [...]
Posted in News on Nov 30th, 2009
An Alzheimer’s Society survey of 1,300 carers and 1,00 nurses has found that more than 50% of dementia patients that are admitted to hospital suffering from complaints such as chest infections and broken hips are staying there much longer than other patients. The prolonged hospital stays combined with varying standards of care are resulting [...]
Posted in News on Oct 15th, 2009
Bupa and the Alzheimer’s Society have launched a joint initiative across Bupa’s 130 care homes to promote good standards of care for dementia patients. Each care home will appoint a member of staff as a ‘Dementia Champion’ who will be responsible for ensuring that all staff in the home that care for residents with [...]
Posted in News on Aug 7th, 2009
Special stands for ‘Specialised early care for Alzheimer’s’ and is a new method of caring for people with dementia. It was developed by Penny Wark in the mid 1980s when her mother began to show signs of dementia and Penny closely observed her actions and behaviours. Special involves relating to dementia sufferers through [...]
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2009
The Alzheimer’s Society in Cumbria has been chosen as one of 22 organisations that will trial new dementia services across the UK. Trained dementia advisers will offer advice and improved access to sources of information and support to patients, their carers and families throughout Cumbria. Other kinds of new support networks will be [...]
Posted in News on Jul 20th, 2009
Health secretary Andy Burnham gave the background to the Government’s Green Paper on adult social care reform, published on 14 July 2009, in an interview with GMTV that morning. ‘We have an ageing society and it is a cruel lottery – some people end up paying lots of money in their later years to look [...]
Posted in News on Jun 29th, 2009
Bristol councils, PCTs, the South West SHA and the Alzheimer’s Society have joined forces to dispel the taboos surrounding dementia and to work to improve dementia services in the south west of England. It is estimated that around 6,000 people in Bristol suffer from dementia and this figure is expected to increase by 33% [...]
