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Good evening. More money and more staff have been pledged to help | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Jersey's growing number of dementia patients. ?500,000 has been set | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
aside for services this year and 16 new mental health professionals are | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
being trained. The number of islanders with dementia is set to | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
double in less than 30 years to about 3000. Patients and their | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
carers say the extra resources have been a long time coming. Jen Smith | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
reports. Janet Carlin cared for her dad until he was too ill to stay at | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
home. For four and a half years she nursed him as dementia took hold. | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
She says one of the worst things was watching her dad lose control. He | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
was falling over all the time, especially at night when he got out | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
of bed. If I left the room, he would panic, so he would follow me because | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
he did not know what was going on. That was 24 hours a day, constant | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
care. This graphic compares a healthy brain with one showing signs | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
of dementia. It's a global problem and one that's particularly apparent | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
in Jersey. Dementia is a term that refers to a number of conditions. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
They are all categorised by a progressive decline in cognitive | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
functions. This is most often memory, but it can be other things, | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
for example language or orientation in space. The island's health | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
department says it's making dealing with dementia a priority due to the | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
aging population. Janet hopes carers as well as patients will be | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
considered. The people that helped me look after him were extremely | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
good but I know they were very stretched. It must put a lot of | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
strain on the people that care for the carers and people with dementia | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
if they are under that kind of pressure. Half a million pounds has | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
been set aside to improve services and fund more support. The race is | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
on to make sure we're ready. So what difference will patients and | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
their families see from this extra investment? Ian Dyer is the director | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
of services for older people in Jersey. The difference they are | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
going to see if there will be more people to support them and more | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
people with specialist skills working with people with dementia. | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
More psychiatry, more psychology, more nursing, more social work, more | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
occupational therapy. We will also employ a bilingual caseworker, | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
someone who can work directly with the Portuguese community and the | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
ageing population within the Portuguese community. We are | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
hopefully starting to make the appointments in September or October | :02:47. | :02:48. | |
this year. The Latvian Ambassador to the UK | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
says Guernsey needs to do more to improve the lives of Latvian people | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
working in the island. Andris Teikmanis is in the bailiwick this | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
week. He says both governments need to work together to improve pensions | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
and work permits for Latvians in Guernsey. | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
A trade union leader claims the States of Guernsey made guarantees | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
that Sure's pension arrangements wouldn't change when it was sold off | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
in 2002. That's the view of Martyn Priaulx from the Prospect union | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
after the telecoms company decided to end its defined benefit pension | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
scheme. Mr Priaulx says assurances were made to telecom staff about | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
their pensions. If we go back ten or 12 years, we were given a lot of | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
guarantees from the senior states people at the time that everything | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
would continue in a shadow scheme exactly the same as we had before | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
and that was one of the big issues at the time with the take`over. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
It's a year this weekend since Guernsey woman Sarah Groves was | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
murdered on a houseboat while travelling in India. Dutchman | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Richard de Witt is accused of her murder and has been on trial for | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
months. He denies all charges. Sarah's father Vic told the BBC the | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
family is still struggling to heal. It is coming up to one year since | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Sarah was killed. How has the year been for you and your family? | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
Obviously the worst year of our lives. They say that time is a | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
healer but it has not healed in any way and probably never will. You | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
realise that you have a life to lead and you sort of have to get on with | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
it but it is punctuated all the time and it is never a smooth flow | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
because you are always coming up against the memory or the reality or | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
the practicalities of the fact that we have lost somebody very near and | :04:27. | :04:39. | |
dear. I can only imagine it has been very difficult one year on to not | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
see justice being served. It hasn't and we are a long way from knowing | :04:43. | :04:53. | |
even if we get that. It is quite a concern to all of us. Although | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
things are speeding up, and that has been pretty well publicised, that | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
the one a month is moving to up to six witnesses a month, which is | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
great, but we still need some pretty solid evidence against this guy | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
because it is very circumstantial. I don't think either of us, any of us, | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
will rest until we know that the right person has been brought to | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
justice. How will you and your family be marking one year on since | :05:17. | :05:30. | |
Sarah's death? Guernsey can be a very small place and it is rather in | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
our face at the moment so we are going to spend it together as a | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
family in the Manchester area. I have been able to immerse myself in | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
the foundation and many other things that are going on. The media and | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
that type of thing. For Katie it is terrible. And enduring. How shall I | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
say this? This is the pinnacle of emotion, this weekend, where we have | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
just got to try and get through it. I am sure we will, but it will not | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
be easy. And you can hear much more from Vic | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
Groves on his fight for justice for Sarah on BBC Radio Guernsey from | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
seven tomorrow morning. But from me, that's it. Have a nice weekend and | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
I'll leave you with the weather with David Braine. Good evening. I think | :06:11. | :06:19. | |
we have a cloudy weekend across the islands this weekend with some rain | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
in the forecast and a fair amount of low cloud making it misty at times. | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
Tomorrow is cloudy with drizzle in the wind and a fair amount of low | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
cloud on the tops of the highest ground of the larger islands. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Overnight, initially some clear spells. Fine to start but dreary to | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
end with cloud and rain coming in towards dawn. Damp to start, nine or | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
ten. Through the morning and into the afternoon, the drizzle will | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
peter out for a time. It is quite misty. Winds becoming southerly and | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
freshening. Top temperatures about 14. Quite humid and then more | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
persistent rain possible moving into Sunday. No frost. Cloudy and mild | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
all weekend. Quite heavy rain on Sunday and it does not clear away | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
until the end of the day on Monday. Both days are cloudy and worked with | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
the winds picking up. The south`westerly wind will be fresh | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
and strong across Kinsey as we move into Sunday. Monday and Tuesday next | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
week the fine weather returns. Have a good weekend and I leave you with | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
this summary. well. The national weather forecast | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
comes from Peter Gibbs. | :07:34. | :07:35. |