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Ross Dementia Meeting Centre - Home page here
Updates
If you don't want to proceed any further than this paragraph, and if you are a carer, the Emergency page could save a lot of problems.
Even the general reader would benefit from the page if its recommendations have not been considered.
Return to Intro here.
Day by day - week by week
8 Oct 2018
I have moved on and live with my new soulmate near Oxford. She is a poet.
Proof that DIY works, via the Ross Dementia Meeting Centre - Home page here
16 Sept
9 Sept
We're singing for the brain here
Recycled songs Home page here
28 August
Unpaid carer stress Home page here
29 July
Richmond Bede Retirement Village here
21 July
Dementia Meeting Centres here
17 July
A day in the life of an unpaid carer - an unexpected occurrence on his doorstep - here.
I July
Your opportunity to participate in the future of UK Dementia Meeting Centres here
30 June
A much-revamped Song and music therapy page here
27 June
Home exercises here
25 June
Wheelchair safety first - continued here
Does she/he take sugar? here
14 June
Text problems have occurred which means that many pages with more-than-simple layout have gone haywire. Most pages with a caption under the header graphic now skewiff will take ages to correct.
12 June
Your opportunity to participate in the future of UK Dementia Meeting Centres here
9 June
Response to "The Long Gray Tunnel here
8 June
I could shout from rooftops and the mountain tops about how good Dementia Meeting Centres are! here
1 June
U-tube is better than Youtube! here
29 May
The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring here
Alone Home page here
27 May
About wheelchairs here
21 May 2016
Caregiver v carer here
20 May 2016
Personal thoughts on the state of NHS Continuing Healthcare here and containing useful links.
NHS Continuing Healthcare here
NHS Continuing Healthcare: How to keep going when the going gets tough - Google here.
19 May
Home Care Charges
If they can do it why not every Council?
Council unveils plan to scrap home care charges Home care charges for people with disabilities are due to be abolished in Hammersmith and Fulham in London as a result of planned budget cuts to other council departments. The decision will mark the end of a difficult battle for local disability campaigners, who have campaigned for eight years to see 'tax on disability' abolished.
Community Care more
16 May 2016
Teresa Harrison Update here
Universal Health Care here UK here
23 April
No 6 on the Books on the carer world page here
5 April
Grove Farm - Kimbolton - near Leominster here
23 March
Mental health care concerns - in Hereford Times here
22 March
Dementia meeting centres here
21 March
Our bird station here
13 March
Prolonging the active mind here
religious aspects here
20 Feb 2016
The Person Centred Introductory test and the G&S test first completed in Nov 2015 have been repeated with no significant change in outcome here.
6 Feb
The Dom-care battle - Paper presented to Promoting Independence on 4th February 2016 here
4 Feb
Dementia Community Roadshow here
15 Jan
Dementia Champion Day Course here.
14 Jan 2016
Various events on the Worcs Uni Education Home page here
29 Dec 2015
Current and future challenges
of family care in the UK here more
The Health and Mental Health
of Informal Caregivers
in Rural and Urban Northern Ireland here
THE FUTURE OF PRIMARY CARE here
15 Dec
2gether complaints here
14 Dec
Readers interested in song and music in the Carer World could see carols in use within a specialised aspect here
A grey version of this car now sits on our drive. here
30 Nov
The Breaks Prescription Scheme gives carers the chance to access a free break up to the value of £50 through their local GP surgery. here but in Wiltshire.
15 Nov
To the Bishop of Herefordshire here
8 Nov
Person-centred Tests Home page here
Glamorgan Hotel - The hotel with heart here
5 Nov
If you attended the Herefordshire Council session on carer strategy today, click here.
4 Nov
The last day of the Care Conference and Care and Dementia Show - both here.
Readers interested in song and music in the Carer World could choose from these pages:
- Recycled songs for carers Home page here
- Songs and music for special needs situations here.
- Songs and music for adults with special needs here
1 Oct
The useful Spotify page is here
25 Sept
If your caree suffers from a visual ailment, there is an interesting experiment well down the page here.
It stems from a question my wife was asked at No. 1 here. Click the Damn Interesting link 8th item down on arrival at Google.
That result was an extension of finding the page here.
23 Sept
A black picture often within the domain of dom-care staff on zero-hours contract, with disallowed travel time - here
10 Sept
The Hereford Branch of TPG Disable Aids saves the day yet again here
6 Sept
Tango Quickie Wheelchair page here
2 Sept
Back to the Glamorgan Holiday Hotel here
How the care crisis is making old age a nightmare.
Related NHS continuing care fund,.
31 August
Dementia Triangle of Care here
25 August
78 year-old woman ejected from A&E at 0200 here
21 August
The carer world is a series of mountains - public page here
16 August
Black news re the Dementia Triangle of Care here
Wishy-washy Herefordshire here
2 August
Glamorgan Holiday Hotel here
Holidays page here
29 July 2015
Home Care Charges
If they can do, it why not every Council? here
25 July
Teresa on her new decking here
8 July Songs and music for adults with special needs here
Dementia resources here
Dementia-friendly here
Dementia Triangle of Care here
6 July - We need a WAV here
2 July 2015
Canal-boat holiday. However, illness struck. here
New page - The Alibi Society here.
5 June
Herefordshire Council - Adult Wellbeing here
3 June 2015 - The good news page is here.
14 May 2015
My wife's health + why less attention given to this website here.
28 Jan a 2015 - My wife's health here
28 Jan b 2015 - The cost of care - a preliminary here
20 Dec
December 2014 update here
18 Dec
With my wife at home now, one of the helping organisations which I'd like to give a big thank-you to is the Hereford Branch of TPG Disable Aids.
27 Nov
A&E etc summary here.
9 Nov
Updates October & November 2014 here
24 October 2014
Minor update on WAVs and why updates have been missed - see No. 5 here.
26 August 2014
Song quizzes here.
As is evident, there are fewer updates during the summer months due to my caree wife being able to go out more.
22 June
The Squiffle Group song is now on youtube here
25 May
Users of the no-to-hereford-uni.org.uk link now go to No. 6 here.
19 May
Dementia Week
Remember Me - the Courtyard Theatre event page is here.
Songs and music for special needs situations here.
GP duty of care here
12 May
no-to-hereford-uni.org.uk - here
University Challenge here
6 May
Worcester University seminars here
21 April Protecting Our Parents TV programme here. Compulsory viewing for all carers.
3 April
Song lists - Main page here
27 March - new page of various songs here
The how and why - here.
25 March
Within the Songs and music for special needs situations here
new - Songs and music lists - Home page here
new - Ulverscroft Song Books - find a song here
13 March
Songs and music for special needs situations here.
New carers song on the Recycled songs Home page here
28 Feb
Channel 5 News at 5 pm asked Jeremy Hunt if enough is being done in the battle with dementia.
27 Feb
Channel 5 News at 5 pm gave more time to dementia.
A moral dilemma rarely out of the headlines is assisted dying and a poll indicates that 2/3 of us are in favour of it. That is in the context of dementia sufferers making provision while they are fully able to.
GP Michael Irwin said that dementia is no different from any other illness here. Dr Peter Saunders of Care not Killing said that many people with dementia are quite happy (?).
Send opinion etc to stories@channel5.com
This website includes dementia and I am at the early stages of acquiring info sources.
The pages (for a rainy day) are:
- Herefordshire’s Symposium here,
- theguardian here,
- The Times here,
- Stigma here.
- Hereford Journal here.
More at 25 Feb below. Link content anywhere here may change.
26 Feb
Read the update on the Intro page here
25 February
Channel 5 News covers dementia all week on TV and it is here. From there you go to the Cathy Jones blog.where you see the couple referred to yesterday here. Watch Cathy's video here.
7 February
Economic and Social Research Council here
2 February
Main aims of the website and its principal content here
The Times - dementia coverage here
Updates re Health Trust and Health Watch at foot of Hereford Times page here
31 January
To education - consumers here
To education - providers here
30 January
Herefordshire Carers Support local groups are now here under today's update.
Find out about D. A. M. P. syndrome here
26 January
New Groups section, The Alzheimer's Society, and a Dementia Symposium here
15 January 2014
Herefordshire Carers Support webpage is now functional here
31 December
Hereford Journal Home page here
Young carers Home page here
Dementia - theguardian coverage here
Stigma and discrimination - a NHS page here
Welfare Reform here
Are you a hawk or a hedgehog? Find out here.
19 December
My Care My Home? here
18 December
A revised Introduction to the website - here.
16 December
A page addressed to education here
13 December
Hereford Times here
12 December
Ross Carers Support Group updated here
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