Novembers news from Stanfield Nursing Home

Christmas is coming!

Yvonne & June who are our 7 days a week Activity Champions  have been using reminiscence sessions about times in our residents childhoods surrounding Christmas celebrations, the outcome has been our residents educating the Homes staff about events that they had no comprehension about.

Richard

Find out more about our approach to activities at Stanfield Nursing Home.

Terrible toll of those affected by dementia

Conditions such as Alzheimer’s are a scourge of modern times as more and more of us live to a great age thanks to medical advances.

Nobody reading her account of the strain her 84-year-old father is under as his wife’s full time carer can think our society provides sufficient support to affected families.

One day scientists will find effective medical remedies. Until they do the challenge for politicians is to find a way to take some of the load off families unfortunate enough to be directly hit.

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Being bilingual could slow down dementia and have a better effect that strong drugs

- Study suggests that being bilingual exercises the mind
- May have a stronger effect on dementia than traditional drugs
- Bilingual patients tended to develop dementia later in life
- Positive effect of being bilingual held even if a person was illiterate

Speaking a second language may delay dementia by up to five years – more than powerful drugs, researchers say.

A study suggests being bilingual exercises the mind, so it has greater reserves when disease takes hold.
But there are no additional advantages to speaking any more than two languages, according to the study in the journal Neurology.



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Listen to an interview with Richard White, Stanfield Nursing Home's owner, about music therapy and dementia