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The Wide Spectrum

Kevin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:07:13 +0000

Purpose of this site:

to help promote good dementia care through providing information, newsletters and supportive educational / teaching materials.
to be an arena for innovations and ongoing developments in the new field of care-giving in dementia (or dementia care).
to highlight the less visible aspects of caring- the constant balancing and support required to link the ‘external requirements’ and ‘inner aspects’ of caring well

Sir Terry Pratchett wants to win control of how his own story ends

Kevin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:54:29 +0000

Friday lunchtime at The Queen’s Head in the village of Broad Chalke outside Salisbury. A few locals sit with Badger ale and sausage and mash. On one side of the log fire a couple speculate on the fate of the England football captain. On the other, Sir Terry Pratchett is ruminating on his own death and the upside of Alzheimer’s. Read more.

Dementia is ‘greatest health challenge’ charity warns

Kevin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:48:48 +0000

Dementia is the greatest health challenge of our generation, a charity has warned, as research shows the condition is more widespread and costs more than previously thought. Read more.

Dementia ‘losing out’ to cancer in funding stakes

Kevin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:45:22 +0000

Dementia now costs the UK economy twice as much as cancer but gets a fraction of the funding to find causes and cures, a report seen by the BBC shows. Read more.

Free social care costs underestimated

Kevin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:16:21 +0000

The government has “significantly underestimated” the cost of delivering free social care, council chiefs say. Read more.

You can’t make meaningful laws for assisted suicide

Kevin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:29:59 +0000

Common sense. Decency. Humanity. These were the words used by Lord Justice Bean in praise of the jury that cleared Kay Gilderdale of the attempted murder of her suicidal, ME-plagued daughter, Lynn. Good words. By contrast, the words of the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, sound like bean-counting barbarism. He says that Gilderdale’s trial was necessary because there was “a realistic prospect of conviction”. Except that Starmer is well known to be neither a bean counter nor barbaric. What is going on? Not much, I fear, despite all the fuss – just a futile search for “clarity”, when only really important stuff like common sense, decency and humanity will suffice. Read more.

Charity hands back care home as rent soars 62%

Kevin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:31:32 +0000

A CHARITY is handing back an old people’s home to Bournemouth council, claiming that a 62 per cent rent hike makes it no longer financially viable. Read more.

Alzheimer’s Society comment on House of Commons debate

Kevin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:10:59 +0000

MPs debated the progress of the government’s National Dementia Strategy in the House of Commons today (Wednesday 27 January 2010). Read more.

Written Ministerial Statement. Government response to the consultation on safeguarding adults: the review of the no secrets guidance

Kevin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:19:09 +0000

The Minister of State, Department of Health (Phil Hope): Safeguarding vulnerable adults who are at risk of harm sits at the heart of government. Those who need safeguarding help are often elderly and frail, living on their own in the community, or without much family support in care homes; they are often people with physical or learning disabilities, and people with mental health needs at risk of suffering harm both in institutions and in the community. It is to these and to many others that government has a duty of safeguarding. Read more.

Care home manager Rachel Baker asked resident: ‘Shall we end it all now?’

Kevin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:07:48 +0000

The drug-addicted manager of a care home for the elderly may have had a “bizarre and perverted” desire to control the “terminal destinies” of two elderly women when she gave them lethal injections of painkillers, a court was told yesterday. Read more.