Nigel Farage has backed the Daily Mail‘s Dementia Carers Together appeal, calling the campaign “brilliant” and “exactly the sort of practical, no-nonsense help Britain needs.”
The Reform UK leader said: “I’m proud to back this brilliant campaign. Right across this country there are ordinary, decent people doing the hardest job of all – caring day and night for a loved one with dementia, often with precious little help.”
“Raising this money so the Alzheimer’s Society can give these family carers proper courses to understand the disease, is exactly the sort of practical, no-nonsense help Britain needs.”
“Putting the spotlight on these quiet heroes through Christmas and beyond is long overdue.” “They deserve every bit of backing we can give them.”
The appeal, the Mail said, will deliver new nationwide six-week courses for friends and relatives of people living with the disease, in partnership with Alzheimer’s Society. The sessions will give carers support and information about their rights and the services available to them, and allow attendees to meet others in a similar situation, helping to address the loneliness, exhaustion and overwhelming responsibilities many face after a loved one’s diagnosis.
There are currently 2.5 million people in the UK who provide some form of care for people with dementia, the paper said, and four out of five of them have reached crisis point at least once. Dementia Carers Together is raising money to fund new courses across the UK to give tens of thousands of unpaid dementia carers “vital emotional and practical support.”
Separately, the Clacton and Frinton Gazette reported on 20 October that Farage had visited Mid Meadows, a care home in Elm Tree Avenue, Frinton, operated by Black Swan Care Group, which supports adults with physical disabilities. During the visit he spent time meeting residents and staff and joined them for a photograph outside the home.
Mid Meadows is one of seven Black Swan Care Group homes across Essex. The Gazette said other homes operated by the group offer short-term respite and longer-term care for older people, including those living with dementia.
