The Care Combine - 4 life-changing fixes for dementia care
The Bine - What's It All About?
Background
We keep hearing that there’s no money for social care, that we can’t find enough care workers. In the UK alone, dementia costs the country over £42 billion a year.
And yet the experts seem to forget that we already have an army of carers, all of them volunteers. In this country nearly a million people support family members or friends with dementia, many of them doing so for 100+ hours a week.
The problem is that this army has no organisation, no leadership. Everyone’s fighting their own individual battle – and that’s no way to win a war.
This IS a war. As the population ages, dementia is on the rise. Experts predict that the numbers of those diagnosed will triple by 2050. If we change nothing, this will place an impossible burden on economies and health systems worldwide.
With no medical cure in sight, the odds are stacked against us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t put up a good fight. We mean to lead from the front.
Our Vision
We aim to establish a network of activity centres – The Bine – where people with dementia will spend their daytime hours each day (- just as children go to school and adults go to work.)
They won’t be just parked at the Bine! Whatever their disabilities, people still want to feel useful and engaged. So we’ll get them involved in purposeful projects and activities – for their community, for family and friends, for each other.
Some will need lots of help, others far less. We’ll provide exactly the assistance that’s needed, with plenty of helpers. Because the normal family carers will be volunteering at The Bine for 2 days a week – that’ll get their loved ones FREE membership.
Latest Posts
Good New Days
In Sweden, Lucia marks the beginning of the Christmas festivities, so we had our own celebration. We need more days like this, which Lena will enjoy and I’ll remember.
I’m Davy Crockett – Get Me Out Of Here
There are lots of dementia groups, many more than 5 years ago. But only around 10% of those diagnosed make use of them. Why? Can we do better with The Bine?
Lock Her Up? – Dementia, Safety, and Liberty
To keep people with dementia safe, we’re sometimes tempted to lock them in. But when does safety become imprisonment? Dementia’s human rights challenges.
Dementia may break minds - but we can do plenty to stop it breaking our spirit.
