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04/01/2026

You see an elderly woman in a taxi at 1.50am, having totted up an £80 fare 🚖 The taxi driver looks confused. Something doesn’t feel right 🤔 We’d like to thank one man who called us in the early hours of the morning on Monday, because this was his reality.

On assessing the situation the man told our call handler that he was trying to get the elderly woman home safely, who was insisting she lived on a certain road in Cambridge. The woman also struggled to remember how old she was.

Further enquiries while we stayed on the phone revealed the elderly woman in fact lived in Newmarket, but had lived in Cambridge earlier in life. Checks with Suffolk Constabulary Official Page highlighted that the woman’s family had reported her missing just a little while before this phone call.

Officers visited the area and took the woman home to safety in Newmarket, where she was reunited with them 🏠 🥰

The woman had a Herbert Protocol form completed with Suffolk Police, which allowed us to cross reference the Cambridge address she was giving with her details. Further safeguarding plans will now also be put in place for her.

Have you heard about the Herbert Protocol? 💡 It’s a scheme we support that can help find people with dementia if they go missing.

Family and friends are encouraged to fill out our online form that will help officers if a loved one goes missing by collating key pieces of information, such as a physical description, familiar places, health details and an up-to-date photo.

We’ve also launched yellow dementia wristbands – which store the name and contact details of a wearer’s next of kin so that if someone gets lost, members of the public can quickly access contact details and reunite them - often taking away the need to call police 👍 🚔

More than 300 people have now filled out our Herbert Protocol form online, proving invaluable in stories like this one, and registered their interest for a wristband. For more information, or to do the same, visit our dedicated web page: https://orlo.uk/Herbert-Protocol_0CJuH

08/12/2025

I love the idea in this article of a place called The Cafe of Forgotten Orders, where people with dementia can work for social interaction and to keep busy.

Japan is facing a dementia crisis – can technology help?

Elderly people aged 65 and over now make up nearly 30% of Japan's population.

22/11/2025

Now available as digital downloads:

TOOLS
Medical appointments preparation and notes
Observation record with ‘how to’ guide
Emergency information with medical and care needs
Hospital stay checklists

INFORMATION GUIDES
Treating minor illness at home (and where to get help when you need it)
Memory problems and dementia
Terminal illness and end-of-life care
Advanced statement of wishes

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Helping you to better manage your health at home

17/12/2023

Lots of useful links on how to get help with covid in this guidance:

Guidance sections on ‘Treatments for people at higher risk of severe outcomes’ and ‘Ordering tests’ have been updated to reflect changes to accessing tests.

16/12/2023

I’m currently sitting with my father (with advanced dementia) in the care home. It’s the last day of his respite care and he’s just tested positive for Covid.

I’ve sent my mother straight back home as she has blood cancer so her immune system is very vulnerable and I need to keep her safe.

It’s very difficult to get him to drink and even harder now he’s ill. He’s particularly discombobulated.

The Joint Emergency Team (JET) nurse checked him over and his temperature, pulse and oxygen levels are okay. But he is very sleepy and confused.

If he doesn’t drink he will have to he admitted to hospital for a drip, but I hear they have patients on beds in corridors. Wish us luck…

08/12/2023

If you’re immuno compromised, it’s really important wear your mask to avoid catching some of the nasty viruses going around.

The number of patients in hospital with norovirus last week was almost triple the number during the same period last winter.

Norovirus is a stomach bug that causes diarrhoea and vomiting. If you catch it, make sure you rest and have plenty of fluids

➡️ http://nhs.uk/norovirus

06/12/2023

If you are caring for someone with dementia at home, do you have the mental energy to use an app to monitor your own mental health?

My 82 year old mother is my father's primary carer and there's no way she has the nerves or the inclination to log in to another app.

It's not just that she can't cope with the never ending passwords and log ins – research shows that as we age, our mental ability to cope with the digital world declines.

Digital is so much less expensive to produce than print, and much more scalable, so businesses still seem to persist in ignoring that older people prefer print. So frustrating.

Researchers want to help support carers who look after family members.

06/12/2023

If you're worried about your memory, our 'Memory problems and dementia' care pack gives you NHS compatible information along with practical tools to help you help yourself, monitor your symptoms and manage at home.

The rise in undiagnosed cases demands a "paradigm shift" in care, a former health minister says.

06/12/2023

Now it's colder and we're all spending more time indoors, it's more important than ever to protect yourself.

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06/11/2023

It's more important than ever to protect your memory. Order our Memory problems and dementia care pack which details what you can do at home.

With cases of dementia forecast to double by 20401, it’s more important than ever to protect your memory. Our Memory problems and dementia Care Pack details what you can do at home to look after your memory. According to an article in The Lancet, the number of people with dementia in England and W...

25/07/2023

If you are worried about your memory and want to do all you can to stop it for getting worse, you can find lots of NHS compatible information and practical tools to help at home in our ‘Memory problems and dementia’ care pack:

25/07/2023

A pretty realistic report on the NHS today, what has caused the current crisis and suggestions of how not to rectify it.

With an aging population, it will only get worse if we don’t address it now.

Dr Kevin Fong gets past the myths to reveal why the NHS is under such pressures.