Tag archives for dementia
Questions About Dementia
Dementia is the fastest growing area of need in adult social care and its rapidity varies, but thereis currently no cure and not all sufferers are elderly. As ROSIE BROCKLEHURST…
How to Choose a Care Home
David Clegg helps you navigate the process of choosing a care home with two other experts sharing tips DAVID CLEGG Choosing a care home is a deeply emotional decision. It’s…
RoboPets Help People with Dementia
SALLY BURR and SAFFRON PHILLIPS A mechanical pet project to help people with early-stage dementia has been launched in East Sussex. The County Council (ESCC) RoboPets scheme aims to support…
Music for Dementia
In Issue 172, HIP ran an article about the benefits of music for dementia sufferers: Astonishing Results with Silent Disco. In this issue we look at what St Leonards –…
Drawing Life – from sketchbook to screen
Sussex-based charity, Drawing Life, holds life drawing classes for people with dementia. Project Director, Judy Parkinson, writes about the challenges they faced in 2020. It is said that every cloud…
Drawing Life’s No-tech Solution to the Covid-19 Lockdown
Drawing Life, the Hastings-based charity, brings art to people living with dementia and other age-related conditions. Now they are releasing a lockdown-proof sketchbook so that their artists can continue drawing.…
In the Moment
An Exhibition Inspired by People Living With Dementia Depot, Pinwell Road, Lewes, BN7 2JSSaturday 28 September – Saturday 19 October 2019 Preview by Susan de Muth At the end of…
Hastings Care Home Wins National Award For Its “First Class” Dementia Care
By Lisa Pettifer A Hastings care home has scooped a national award for its “first class” dementia care. Hastings Court on The Ridge beat off stiff competition from five other…
Drawing Life: The Exhibition
By Julia Mortimer We here at HIP have written before about the Drawing Life project and the benefits it brings to people living with dementia in care homes in the…