People with Alzheimer’s may not always experience memory loss as their first symptom of the disease, with younger people more likely to have problems with judgement, language or visual and
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The Care Inspectorate has today published a progress review on services for children and young people in the Dumfries and Galloway community planning partnership area. It comes just over a
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Children’s charity Barnardo’s is calling on the new government to act now to stop the decrease in funding of children’s centres, following new calculations that reveal a dramatic budget decrease
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The two rivals for the Liberal Democrat leadership have launched a campaign to block David Cameron’s plan to scrap the Human Rights Act. Norman Lamb and Tim Farron put aside
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The Scottish Government has announced an extra £85 million will be invested in improving mental health services over the next five years. The money is on top of the existing
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A new study has highlighted the potential for pet dogs to reduce stress in parents of children with autism. A team of psychologists and animal behaviour experts at the University
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The proportion of people dying in hospices in England has nearly doubled since 1993, but the gap in hospice deaths between people living in the least and most deprived areas
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Researchers in the South West are urging more people in the region to consider volunteering for dementia studies. Many pioneering studies into the devastating condition are underway in the region,
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A new £3 million fund has been announced to enable active and independent living for people who are recovering from illness or injury. The fund will be used to deliver
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The Scottish Recovery Network, See Me and VOX have announced the programme of the upcoming Rights For Life event, a national conference on human rights and mental health recovery in
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