Family Care Radio show focuses on dementia

Our latest Family Care Radio show is live at www.familycareradio.net.nz!

This month our Family Care Radio show focuses on dementia.

Dr Maree Todd offers expert advice about some of the tough decisions that face those who care for an elderly loved one.

Todd Naill talks with Brigid Magner, the daughter of well known NZ author Maurice Shadbolt, and former television presenter Barbara Magner. Maurice died in 2004 after a long battle with a dementia disease.  Her Mum is now also affected by Alzheimer's.

Learn about the Top Twenty Books that carers and people affected with dementia have found most useful, compiled by Family Care Radio and Alzheimer’s NZ!

Our Five Minute Features this month include ActiveWellness with ACC: Safe housework and maintenance.  Our continence advisor Sonja Karon talks about managing leaks, managing life with catheters, and the importance of keeping your sense of humour!

Healing is the latest Five Minute Mediation from Anna Filliol. Choose from other topics in our meditations library at the Family Care Radio website.

Our second issue of Older Family Care is available now!  Email sara@carers.net.nz or phone (0800) 777 797 to request your free copy!

We’re working on our June issue of Family Care at the moment; this will automatically be sent to you if you are already on our mailing list. Otherwise you can phone our office, or email sara@carers.net.nz to request your own copy.

From this programme, you can now also listen to Family Care Radio on community radio stations around New Zealand.  The stations are replaying each new show TWICE, so even if you don't feel like listening to the show on the Internet, you can tune in using your ordinary household radio.

We hope to make the show available on other 'real world' stations soon, and to produce a CD and DVD containing lots of Family Care Radio interviews, wellbeing and learning resources, and lots more. 

Remember, you can listen to all past Family Care Radio shows (or just interviews of most interest to you) at the website.

Community stations now playing Family Care Radio include:

Community Radio Hamilton

Radio Kidnappers (Hastings/Napier)

Coast Access Radio (Kapiti)

Arrow FM (Masterton)

Fresh FM (Nelson Region)

Plains FM (Christchurch)

Radio Southland (Invercargill)

In our next show, hear about Grant Hamilton, the young 24 year old trainee chef from Wellington who is training for the Ironman 2010 event, and raising money for Carers NZ ... and learn about the Government's plans for carers.

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