It's Motor Neurone Disease Awareness Week 18th to 26th June

On Saturday June 5th CWU members supported a sponsored walk in Redcar to raise money towards former CWU divisional rep Mike Findley's MND Fund.

Mike and the Deputy Mayor of Redcar

Team CWU

Team talk

Team walk

Equality Officer walks

Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones. Degeneration of the motor neurones leads to weakness and wasting of muscles, causing increasing loss of mobility in the limbs, and difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing.

• Motor Neurone Disease is not infectious or contagious. It can affect any adult at any age but most people diagnosed with the disease are over the age of 40, with the highest incidence occurring between the ages of 50 and 70
• Men are affected approximately twice as often as women.
• The incidence or number of people who will develop MND each year is about two people in every 100,000.
• The prevalence or number of people living with MND at any one time is approximately seven in every 100,000

(Source: Motor Neurone Disease Association. http://www.mndassociation.org)

  

The Equality department has produced a fact sheet to raise awareness. This can be downloaded from the Equal Opportunities section of the CWU website.