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 26th, 2010
The wife of a dementia patient whose continuing care funding was revoked has won her battle with South Tyneside PCT to have it reinstated. Hector Atkinson, who suffers from dementia, was assessed as eligible for continuing care after breaking his hip in 2007. But when his condition was reassessed in January 2009, the PCT ruled [...]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2010
The National Audit Office has published an interim report detailing the progress that the English Government has made in developing dementia care since announcing in 2007 that this was to be a ‘national priority’. The National Dementia Strategy was subsequently published in February 2009 and lays out the Government’s plans to improve standards of care [...]
Posted in News on Jan 20th, 2010
The case of John Mejor, 88, whose continuing care funding was recently withdrawn by NHS Devon, has attracted nationwide media interest. Originally reported in the Exmouth Journal, Mr Mejor’s situation has since been highlighted by several national media including the Daily Mail, Radio 4 and Five Live. Mr Mejor, who served as a [...]
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 Jan 7th, 2010
The Daily Mail reports that a Wiltshire woman suffering from severe dementia has been denied continuing care funding as her PCT does not consider she has an overriding health need. The decision is being challenged by Phyllis Knight’s daughter, Angela Howard. Mrs Knight has been living in a care home since her husband, [...]
Posted in News on Jan 7th, 2010
Care provider Pendine Park has announced that it hopes to create a world-leading dementia care centre on the site of a former hospital in Gwynedd, Wales. The company is about to submit a planning permission application for the £4 million project, which would provide a mixture of home and community-based services for dementia patients [...]
Posted in News on Dec 21st, 2009
The Guardian has published an article warning of the problems that the UK faces due to its ageing population. Following on from their recent London conference on older people and ageing Britain, the article describes a raft of potential issues, including:
By 2030 there will be over 2.9 million over-85s in Britain and by 2055 [...]
