The Independent Living Centre is holding another Open Day, this time on the theme of Assistive Technology.
We hope to have a range of suppliers coming with aids such as pendant alarms, medication reminders, key safes etc.
Local organisations such as Carers Oxfordshire, dementia information services, the Sleep Apnoea Trust will also be coming.

The event will be on Wednessday 3 December (10am to 3pm) at Peachcroft Christian Centre, Lindsay Drive, Abingdon. OX14 2RT
All are welcome to our open days. Just drop in. Refreshments available.

Source Independent:
More than a third of people with degenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis are having their benefits slashed because the Department for Work and Pensions deems they will recover enough to look for work. Read on.

Source MS Society:
What MS research are scientists doing right now? What goes on at the MS Society Tissue Bank? We report from a ‘Meet the Neuroscientist’ event at Imperial College London – read it here!

Two MS treatments that relieve MS symptoms have been rejected by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), in its new national clinical guideline for multiple sclerosis, published on the 8th October 2014.
The guideline, which sets out how the NHS should manage the treatment of people with MS, is the first to be published in over a decade. Read more.

Source Guardian:
With Nice announcing its latest guidelines on drugs and clinical care, the Guardian’s health editor is joined by an expert panel to discuss the implications for those who suffer from MS.

Sarah is joined in studio by Professor Mark Baker, d…irector of the centre for clinical practice at Nice, Dr Paul Cooper, chair of the MS guidelines committee, Dr Nick Rijke, executive director of policy and research at the MS Society, and Amy Bowen, director of service development at the MS Trust. Listen here!