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Well, after watching the long omnibus edition of ITV’s popular soap this weekend, I was able to catch up on whats’ been happening on Coronation Street. It was well documented in the best TV magazines that Lesley was to be written out of the programme so it would be interesting to see how the script writers of Britain’s best loved soap...
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It’s been interesting to see how Coronation Street have dealt with the storyline involving Lesley and her fight with Alzheimer’s. We have followed the story since the script writers decided to introduce a character into the street with Alzheimer’s disease back in July 2011 and we have watched many scenes involving other members of the street that have...
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This is number 2 in the new series of Louis Theroux, shown on the BBC on 26 April 2012. Here we watch as Louis travels to Phoenix, Arizona, which is said to be the capital of dementia care in the USA. He explores dementia and how it erodes the personality of the sufferer and how loved ones...
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This is our fourth post on the storyline that Coronation Street are using with Alzheimer’s as the theme. We first posted back in july 2011, when we had a feeling that the scriptwriters of the UK’s best loved TV soap were going to use an Alzheimer’s story line. But what are we to make of the...
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People with dementia and their carers are to be recruited for a trial looking at how word games and quizzes can benefit brain stimulation in sufferers. Bangor University research suggests cognitive stimulation from playing dominoes or even baking a cake can also help boost memory. There are now plans to trial the technique to...
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Love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher was one of the UK’s most controversial Prime Ministers and the film portraying her life as The Iron Lady, has won Meryl Streep a Bafta Award for Best actress at the 2012 Bafta Awards. The British awards ceremony was dominated by the film “The Artist” which won...
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Update on how Coronation Street are dealing with the subject of Alzheimer’s We have followed the storyline on Alzheimer’s that Coronation Street introduced into the show ever since we were tipped off back in July 20011 , but how is Britain’s number 1 soap doing with on the sensitive subject of Alzheimer’s disease. We catch up since our last post on...
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By Nick Triggle Health correspondent, BBC News Hospitals in England and Wales are falling short in the care given to dementia patients, a review says. The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ audit of 210 hospitals – the first of its kind – says while services are safe, they are lacking in other areas. The report...
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It is widely known that eating fish is good for the brain, but a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has found that there is a link between eating fish at least once a week and the development of Alzheimer’s disease. The US scientists found that eating fish on a weekly basis appears to...
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On July 28th we reported that a character in Coronation Street was set to develop Alzheimer’s disease, well on Friday 21st of October we were proved right. Although our instincts were to assume that it would be one of the main characters in the street that would be given the storyline. It turns out that the...
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