Tag: dementia

Funding hits all the right notes for Scotland-wide dementia friendly choir network

A funding award of £225,000 has been announced by the Life Changes
Trust and the Baring Foundation to support new and existing community
choirs across the whole of Scotland to become dementia inclusive. Continue reading Funding hits all the right notes for Scotland-wide dementia friendly choir network

Prize-winning nurse turns her compassion into poetry

Maggie wins 2018 Simon Pullin Award 

Margaret Joan Hampson Batchelor of Nursing with Distinction

A YOUNG nursing student was honoured for her outstanding caring skills after turning to poetry to articulate the demands of the job. Continue reading Prize-winning nurse turns her compassion into poetry

New Edinburgh project supports people with dementia to be more active and healthy

A new project, Movement for Memories, will support people living with dementia and their carers to become or remain physically active in Edinburgh. This work is supported with funding from the Life Changes Trust.  The Trust is funded by the Big Lottery. Continue reading New Edinburgh project supports people with dementia to be more active and healthy

New singing group in Drylaw Church for people with dementia

I am a member of a small voluntary association and we have recently started running a new Singing Group for people with dementia their carers. 

We meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday afternoon of each month from 2- 4 pm in Drylaw Parish Church and are actively seeking new members from the Drylaw area. The Group is open to anyone one with dementia, accompanied by a carer or escort.

Rosemary King

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Movement for Memories: new Edinburgh project creates physical activities for people living with dementia

Edinburgh Leisure is set to launch a new project called Movement for Memories, to support people living with dementia to get active, thanks to funding from the Life Changes Trust. Continue reading Movement for Memories: new Edinburgh project creates physical activities for people living with dementia

Jennifer to host ladies’ day event in memory of mum

A West Lothian woman is organising a ladies’ day event in Edinburgh to raise money for pioneering dementia research in honour of her mum who died with Alzheimer’s disease aged 65. Jennifer Littlejohn, from East Calder, is putting on a day of prosecco, afternoon tea, shopping and live music at The Hub in Castlehill, Edinburgh, on Sunday 18 March to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Continue reading Jennifer to host ladies’ day event in memory of mum

Scottish Gas ready to help customers living with dementia this winter

  • Scottish Gas ramps up support in Edinburgh for customers living with dementia this winter
  • Company estimates one in every 100 of its customers is living alone with dementia 
  • More than 20,000 staff have completed dementia awareness sessions to become ‘Dementia Friends’ – as Scottish Gas meets its pledge with the Alzheimer’s Scotland to become a dementia-friendly organisation 

Scottish Gas is working with Alzheimer Scotland and the Alzheimer’s Society to encourage families, friends and carers of customers living with dementia across Scotland to contact their energy company if they are concerned about the energy account of their loved ones this winter. Continue reading Scottish Gas ready to help customers living with dementia this winter