New BMA Guidance
British Medical Association wants to allow doctors to starve Mentally Disabled patients to death
Is the BMA introducing back door Euthanasia
Leaked BMA guidance gives medics permission to play God
BMA: “Let doctors euthanise Dementia Patients”
Antipsychotics
Dangerous antipsychotic medicine being over-prescribed for elderly patients
Antipsychotic drugs are rarely effective in calming Dementia patients
DWP
Humiliating Benefits assessments must end after woman forced to crawl up DWP stairs
The DWP just sunk to it’s most disgraceful moment to date
DWP’s secret death reviews: Investigation into deaths doubles in two years
The DWP had been forced to admit people are dying under Universal Credit
Universal Credits hidden cuts push Disabled people into poverty
Rights
Social and Economic Rights are Human Rights and we need to start taking them seriously
Medical Consent, What do human rights have to do with it?
Bill on Mental Capacity and Liberty Protection, will take rights backwards
Are Human Rights only for the rich?
An Australian Perspective on UN disability development
Stop Dehumanising the Disabled
Politics
Labour Conference: Marsha Da Cordova calls for an alternative to Universal Credit
Disability Labour Co-Chair: It’s not Brexit that I fear, It’s the Tory Government
When it comes to the mistreatment of people, the Tories really are the “Nasty” Party
£1bn in unpalatable county council cuts ahead in
Plans for new Scottish Disability Support Set Out
Global care crisis set to affect 2.3 billion people warns UN labour agency
NHS
NHS should expand social prescribing, says Health secretary
A&E’s overcrowded and understaffed
Abuse
Abuse taking place in 99% of care homes, amid chronic underfunding, survey shows
Sydney nursing home worker spared jail over attack on Dementia patient
Other News
Unique Chorus gives voice to people with Alzheimer’s
I’m tired of being called just a carer, Looking after people is a proper job
In praise of do-gooders and those that care
I had Alzheimer’s, but wasn’t ready to retire
Total chaos as Sussex care home closed down
My time, 40% of carers have not had a break in over a year
Early Dementia detection benefits the person, state and taxpayer
Dementia risk for most people in polluted areas is 40 per cent higher, Scientists warn
Ministers drop plans for parallel process on working age social care
My life isn’t over just because I have Dementia, stop treating me like it is
The Other Place Review: Rage, Confusion, Compassion in a Dementia Drama
World Alzheimer’s Day to be celebrated with launch of new calendar
Dementia symptoms get better in the summer and autumn, scientists find
Enabled, not disabled, candidates run to raise disability awareness
Are we really on the brink of a cure for Alzheimer’s
World Alzheimer’s Day celebrated with launch of new calendar
When The Fog Lifts 