Just because a person has early stages of dementia or is frail due to their age does not mean that cannot lead an independent life. One simple way that you can help is to make the persons house as safe and as easy for the person to use as possible. There are many dementia products you could go out and buy...
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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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One of the biggest problems a carer can have when caring for a person with dementia is aggression. It can be a very difficult thing to deal with and there are no clear cut answers to how and why the person may become aggressive but it can help if you can identify when and what triggers...
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One question that we get asked on a regular basis is whether or not dementia is hereditary. Its not surprising that its a question people want an answer to especially with the growing number of people around the world developing diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Lewy Body, Vascular or one of the many other forms...
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How to Choose a Dementia Care Home Once a decision has been made to place a family member or friend with dementia into a care home, the one thing that you will want to make sure is that the care home is the best one available, this is especially true if the decision with...
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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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Your home is your castle they say, but if you or someone you know suffers from dementia the home could be far from a place of comfort and security and more like a prison if familiar household items seem alien and unusable due to the persons condition. But new research by the University of...
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Dementia with Lewy Bodies or DLB as it is sometimes referred to, accounts for nearly 10% of all cases of degenerative dementia and the number of people with the disease are said to number over 100,000 in the UK. The dementia of Lewy Bodies is often misdiagnosed by GPs as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease because the symptoms...
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Grannys moving in. by Paddy Wivell – Shown on the BBC2 on 7/3/12 With the rising retirement care home costs in the UK, more and more people are having to move an elderly relative into their own home. The BBC has made a documentary about the subject and the programme was shown last night on BBC2. The 1 hour documentary...
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In this short video we watch David Behan, who is the Governments Director General for Social Care, Local Government and Care Partnerships, talk about how to improve dementia care services. Key points from the video are - There needs to be good quality, early intervention and diagnosis of dementia Improvement in quality of care provided by all hospitals when treating people with dementia Care homes who...
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