Early detection of the onset of Alzheimer’s disease is a crucial step and plays an important part in a person’s long term prognosis. However, detection of Dementia takes some time to show and may not...
Taxi and minicab firms would deliver a better service if they showed more sensitivity to the needs of passengers who live with dementia, participants say in a new report by research charity Rica. The research...
Caring for an elderly relative can often place emotional and physical distress on a family member, especially if they are living with a serious health condition, such as dementia. Not only will a family member...
The challenge on Dementia 2020 contains over 50 commitments that together aspire to make England the best country in the world for dementia care and support, for people with dementia to live; and to conduct...
The Good Care Group offer high quality live in care services, for elderly people to live in their home for as long as possible. Their eye-opening and educational dementia guide offers a ‘person-centred’ analysis of...
Nick McDermott reports in The Sun – A great-grandad with dementia and Parkinson’s was left on a hospital trolley for 33 hours before he eventually died. The bungled treatment of ex-factory worker Graham Philips, 66,...
Britain faces a “Major Public Health Challenge” caused by the impact of long-term loneliness on elderly people, two charities have warned. Linked to dementia, depression and high blood pressure, chronic loneliness threatens the health of...
Essex County Council should be thoroughly ashamed after keeping a 91 year-old man in a LOCKED dementia unit against his wishes for 17 months. This was despite his repeated insistence that he wanted to go...
Diabetes in middle age can dramatically increase the risk of developing dementia, scientists have warned. They say the disease causes the mind to age five years faster. Research shows that middle-aged diabetes sufferrers are at...
Mark Reynolds writing in the Daily Express has reported that research suggests coffee can significantly cut the risk of suffering dementia. Three to five cups a day could reduce the chances of developing the disease...
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