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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Kids and dementia patients enjoy 'smiles and love'
Dementia patients have partnered with primary school pupils in south-east London in a project to assuage loneliness and improve cognitive function. Children from St James the Great and residents of the Greenhive care home in Peckham meet in a library where they share classic stories, and use immersive lights and audio narration to connect with each other. The founder of the scheme, John Ramsay, said it was intended to "destigmatise the world of dementia" and was a form of care that was not about physical or medical needs. "It's about making them happy, about their feelings, about the engagement, smiles, love." He added: "It's about working out what you can do when you're living with a cognitive impairment and how you can engage with the world around you, including with different generations". He said the programme, called Social Ability, gave children the skills to interact with older people with cognitive impairment, a condition that could affect their grandparents or parents. Mr Ramsay said: "Often we're too ready to lock a door so that someone can't get out, and that only increases the isolation which is already there if you are living with a cognitive impairment". A care home resident, Brenda, said the meetings improve her emotional wellbeing. "I think it's fantastic for them, it's got them all happy and active. I'm enjoying it. It's nice to see the smiles on their faces. "I'm good with children and I enjoy seeing them." Mercy Mautsi, a care home manager, said it was "refreshing" because "most young children don't know what a care home looks like and they've got this fear of people with dementia. "Without this project, Brenda and the children, they would only have that stereotypical idea of a care home which is where people old people are just sitting, here can understand and make conversations and friends." One of the pupils, Angel, said she felt "really connected" with Brenda. "I saw like a really fun side of her when she was playing with us. "I hope this brings Brenda happiness and I hope she can come to the library every day or maybe like once a week or something." Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook, X and Instagram. Send your story ideas to
BBC News
5 days ago
- Health
- BBC News
School pupils and dementia patients enjoy 'smiles and love'
Dementia patients have partnered with primary school pupils in south-east London in a project to assuage loneliness and improve cognitive from St James the Great and residents of the Greenhive care home in Peckham meet in a library where they share classic stories, and use immersive lights and audio narration to connect with each founder of the scheme, John Ramsay, said it was intended to "destigmatise the world of dementia" and was a form of care that was not about physical or medical needs."It's about making them happy, about their feelings, about the engagement, smiles, love." He added: "It's about working out what you can do when you're living with a cognitive impairment and how you can engage with the world around you, including with different generations". He said the programme, called Social Ability, gave children the skills to interact with older people with cognitive impairment, a condition that could affect their grandparents or parents. Mr Ramsay said: "Often we're too ready to lock a door so that someone can't get out, and that only increases the isolation which is already there if you are living with a cognitive impairment".A care home resident, Brenda, said the meetings improve her emotional wellbeing. "I think it's fantastic for them, it's got them all happy and active. I'm enjoying it. It's nice to see the smiles on their faces."I'm good with children and I enjoy seeing them." Mercy Mautsi, a care home manager, said it was "refreshing" because "most young children don't know what a care home looks like and they've got this fear of people with dementia."Without this project, Brenda and the children, they would only have that stereotypical idea of a care home which is where people old people are just sitting, here can understand and make conversations and friends."One of the pupils, Angel, said she felt "really connected" with Brenda. "I saw like a really fun side of her when she was playing with us. "I hope this brings Brenda happiness and I hope she can come to the library every day or maybe like once a week or something."
Yahoo
30-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Top financial industry group urges scrutiny of IEX's options exchange proposal
(Reuters) -A top U.S. financial industry group has raised concerns over stock exchange IEX's proposal to launch a new options trading platform, urging regulators to scrutinize whether the plan meets market fairness and transparency standards. IEX has proposed an options exchange that would introduce a 350-microsecond pause on trades, designed to prevent ultra-fast traders from exploiting brief price differences. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, which represents broker-dealers, investment banks and asset managers, said that the proposed setup could harm investors. Brokers are required to send orders to the exchange that display the best price. However, under IEX's plan, those displayed prices might disappear before the trade is executed, potentially leaving customers with inferior deals, SIFMA said. The group urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to examine whether IEX's system would unfairly benefit certain traders while making it more challenging for others, including everyday investors, to obtain competitive pricing. "It has been well established by the SEC and Federal Court that IEX innovations ... help investors and do not harm them," the company's chief market policy officer John Ramsay said. "We have publicly provided extensive data and analysis to show that it will be targeted to meet that purpose and will have the same beneficial impact in the options markets." Last week, market maker Citadel Securities also requested that the SEC reject IEX's proposed options exchange. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
