Posted in News on Dec 10th, 2009
Businessman and former chief executive of Granada TV Gerry Robinson has made a two-part BBC documentary entitled ‘Can Gerry Robinson fix dementia care homes?’ Further to his own experiences with his father, who died of dementia, Mr Robinson decided to investigate the standards of dementia care that are available in England’s care homes and [...]
Posted in News on Dec 7th, 2009
The Times has revealed that Gordon Brown’s recent pledge to provide free social care to England’s 400,000 neediest people will come at the expense of vital funding into diseases such as dementia. Questions were raised over how the Government will pay the £670 million bill for providing the free care as soon as the [...]
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 Nov 18th, 2009
The Government’s long-awaited review on the effect the widespread prescription of anti-psychotic drugs to dementia patients has now been published. The report echoes the conclusions already reached by dementia experts – the drugs are not only needlessly prescribed in most cases, but are frequently responsible for premature death. Of the 180,000 patients that [...]
Posted in News on Oct 21st, 2009
A number of American doctors have reclassified dementia as a terminal illness in an attempt to ensure a better standard of palliative care for patients that are in the final stages of the disease. In an interview with Time magazine, Dr Greg Sachs of the Indiana Center for Ageing Research explained that he has [...]
Posted in News on Oct 7th, 2009
A report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that dementia sufferers and their carers could benefit enormously from a greater level of holistic support, provided at an earlier stage in the disease’s progression. At the present time, support often cannot be accessed until the patient’s condition is quite advanced or a ‘crisis [...]
Posted in News on Sep 15th, 2009
The Vale of Glamorgan in Wales has welcomed the introduction of a national action plan to help the country cope with an anticipated rise in the number of dementia sufferers. The Welsh Assembly Government’s National Dementia Action Plan for Wales has now been put out for public consultation. It aims to provide support [...]
Posted in News on Aug 27th, 2009
Welsh Assembly Member Lesley Griffiths is urging the public to get involved in the consultation process for the National Dementia Action Plan for Wales before the deadline of 11 September 2009. The Action Plan was announced in June and introduces new measures to meet the needs of dementia sufferers and their carers as well [...]
Posted in News on Aug 14th, 2009
Northamptonshire County Council has agreed to provide £1.3 million of funding to help improve the county’s adult social care services. The money will be spent on eight new projects that aim to prevent problems or intervene at an early stage. Five more projects will be funded by the Northamptonshire Invest to Save programme [...]
Posted in News on Aug 7th, 2009
The healthcare company PSP Care Centre has set up a £1 million fund to help pay for care for dementia sufferers in Devon. The company runs Angela Court care home in Tipton St Johns, Devon, which provides specialist nursing care for 37 residents with dementia. The new fund aims to help bridge the [...]
