Dementia Patients to be Tracked by GPS Satellite Device

Dementia patients will be tracked by GPS devices whenever they leave their homes under a new scheme to rescue them when they get lost, The Times has learnt.

The device is to be fitted into the jewellery or clothing of elderly patients, whose movements will be monitored by satellite.

They will have access to a panic button if they become confused or distressed, and their families or carers will be able to follow their movements on a secure website.'

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Our Toxic World: Nine-Year-Old Girl Diagnosed With Dementia

A 13-year-old girl living in the United Kingdom has been suffering from early-onset dementia since the age of nine, according to British news reports.

Dementia refers to a cluster of roughly 100 different incurable diseases in which the brain's cognitive functioning progressively deteriorates. The most common form is Alzheimer's disease. Most dementia affects people over the age of 65, but early onset forms are becoming more common.'

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Anti-Psychotic Drugs Kill 2,000 British Dementia Patients Each Year

As many as many as 144,000 people suffering from dementia are being given anti-psychotic drugs unnecessarily, according to a review ordered by the Department of Health. Excessive use of the medication causes an estimated 1,800 deaths and almost as many strokes among older people every year, the study revealed.'

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Puts the 182 british deaths from swine flu into perspective methinks!!

'Scandalous Abuse' of the Elderly Prescribed Antipsychotics in Hospital Exposed

Tens of thousands of vulnerable dementia patients are being prescribed 'chemical cosh' drugs in hospital wards in a 'scandalous abuse' of the elderly, ten leading health organisations have said in a letter to The Daily Telegraph.

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Our Toxic World: Nine Year Old Girl Diagnosed with Dementia

Isobel Jeffery displays the same symptoms as sufferers in their 70s and 80s and can no longer feed, dress herself or walk or talk properly.

She has lost the ability to concentrate or hold a conversation and suffers memory loss, nightmares, hallucinations and becomes easily confused.

But despite her condition Isobel's parents describe her as a "rare cookie" with a "wicked sense of humour and enthusiasm about life".

Isobel was diagnosed with early on set dementia, aged just nine, when she began to slur her words and display the same problems as people eight times her age.

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Lilly Sold Drug for Dementia Knowing It Didn’t Help, Files Show

Eli Lilly & Co. urged doctors to prescribe Zyprexa for elderly patients with dementia, an unapproved use for the antipsychotic, even though the drugmaker had evidence the medicine didn’t work for such patients, according to unsealed internal company documents.

In 1999, four years after Lilly sent study results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration showing Zyprexa didn’t alleviate dementia symptoms in older patients, it began marketing the drug to those very people, according to documents unsealed in insurer suits against the company for overpayment.

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The Moment Social Workers Snatched a Dementia Patient From Daughter's Home and Forced her Back to a Care Home

Concerned about the treatment her elderly mother was receiving in a care home, Rosalind Figg decided to look after her personally. She and her partner created an ensuite bedroom with an alarm system to wake them if 86-year-old Betty Figg, who has dementia, got up in the night.
When her mother confirmed that she was unhappy, Miss Figg took her home in the hope that it would be the end of an unfortunate chapter in her life.

But two days later, amid astonishing scenes, the old lady was snatched back by social services.
A distraught Mrs Figg was wheeled to a car with a blanket over her head after police who had been called in as back-up threatened to smash the door with a battering ram if the family did not hand her over.
Yesterday she was back in her room at £2,000-a-month Butts Croft House in Corley, Warwickshire.

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Drugs Contribute to Dementia, Delirium

Older patients become more susceptible to drug-induced dementia and delirium as they age, but the symptoms are often overlooked by doctors who don’t realize that the condition may be caused by drugs and reversed, Public Citizen writes in a Worst Pills, Best Pills News article released today on WorstPills.org, the organization’s drug safety Web site.

Unlike most forms of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, which cannot be reversed, dementia caused by prescription drug use may be stopped by discontinuing the offending medication.

The drug safety experts at Public Citizen have identified 136 commonly prescribed medications, especially certain antidepressants and pain medications, that can cause difficulty thinking.

Drug-induced dementia and delirium are commonly misattributed to underlying medical illness or merely to “old age.” But by stopping or modifying the dosage of numerous, frequently prescribed drugs, most patients can be restored to a pre-drug state of mental clarity.

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GPS Tracking Tags Attached to Dementia Sufferers by NHS Trust

GPS tracking devices are to be fitted to dementia patients in the first trial of its kind in Britain.
A total of 20 patients from the Thames Valley and Somerset areas are taking part in the trial which enables their movements to be monitored on a map via a secure website.
Dr Rupert McShane, a consultant in old age psychiatry at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust said the new technology could provide patients with more freedom to go out safely

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Microchips next then!

Old People With Dementia Have A Duty To Die And Should Be Pushed Towards Death, says Baroness Warnock

Elderly people with dementia are 'wasting' the lives of those who have to care for them, one of the country's most influential experts on medical ethics said yesterday.
Baroness Warnock said that for the old and sick who are contemplating dying, 'there is nothing wrong with feeling you ought to do so'.
Her remarks in an interview with a church journal were the first public suggestion from any expert with close links to Whitehall that euthanasia should not only be legal but that elderly people should be pressed towards death.
Lady Warnock said: 'If you are demented, you are wasting people's lives, your family's lives, and you are wasting the resources of the National Health Service.'
Her remarks were condemned as 'shocking ignorance' and 'barbaric' by Alzheimer's charities.

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I'd like to push her towards death, preferably off the edge of a 500 ft cliff !!

Iraq is Now a Stable and Peaceful Country- John McCain

THIS IS JOHN McCAIN'S VIEW OF A STABLE PEACEFUL IRAQ

'Today, Time Magazine published an interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that it conducted aboard McCain’s campaign airplane. Reporters James Carney and Michael Scherer described McCain as “prickly” and “at times, abrasive” during the course of the interview.
Carney and Scherer noted to McCain that the Iraqi government is calling for a deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq even though McCain’s previously stated definition of “victory” — “a peaceful, stable, prosperous democratic state” — has not been achieved. The Arizona senator dismissed their characterization of the situation, saying that Iraq is “a peaceful and stable country now”

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