Offering a Helping Hand to Make Coping Easier ; Dementia Is a Brain Disease That Often Starts with Memory Problems, but Goes On to Affect Many Other Parts of the Brain. Health Reporter Helen Rae Spoke to a North East Carer Who Looks After People with the Condition.

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WORLDWIDE, a new case of Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed every seven seconds and with 700,000 people in the UK living with this neurological disorder it is inevitable at some point in your life someone you know will be affected by it.

Families are often faced with a difficult decision of how to care for someone who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's as Philip Parkinson Homecare carer, Laura Hawke, knows only too well.

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Offering a Helping Hand to Make Coping Easier ; Dementia Is a Brain Disease That Often Starts with Memory Problems, but Goes On to Affect Many Other Parts of the Brain. Health Reporter Helen Rae Spoke to a North East Carer Who Looks After People with the Condition.

For three years, Laura, from Cramlington, Northumberland, has worked with people affected by the disease.

The 23-year-old was prompted to enter the sector after her stepfather, John Rudge, nearly died from stomach cancer when she was just 16.

She said: "My stepdad spent five months in intensive care and seeing the role that the nurses played in helping him make a full recovery prompted me to want to give something back.

""From the age o...

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