JournalLive - Tag - alzheimer's disease

Dementia the ticking timebomb

JournalLive — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Dementia is taking its toll as our population ages. MICHAEL BROWN looks at the condition and the attempts to have it rated as a health priority

JournalLive — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:30:00 GMT

VULNERABLE North East pensioners are losing more than £3m a year to con artists, cold callers, scam mail and unscrupulous tradesmen.

JournalLive — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:00:00 GMT

A FREE talk about dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease will be given at Cramlington Library from 2.30pm to 3.30pm on Thursday, October 13.

JournalLive — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:30:00 GMT

PATIENTS suffering early stages of dementia in the North East were given new hope today after a health watchdog performed a drugs U-turn.

JournalLive — Tue, 11 May 2010 23:19:00 GMT

A PENSIONER who had to take out a large mortgage to pay for his wife’s residential care has won his bid to get a refund of more than £54,000.