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Dementia Carers Count (DCC) has published their 2024-2026 strategy, created in collaboration with carers.  Frances Lawrence, Chief Executive of DCC, says:  “From listening to our staff with caring expertise and personal lived experience of being a dementia carer, to working with our Carers Advisory Panel and thousands of survey respondents, we’ve listened. And what we’ve…

A new report from Parkinson’s UK – Nobody really knows us – has found that the health and social care system is failing to meet the needs of people with Parkinson’s-related dementia. Carers are struggling to cope due to a lack of support, and little or no guidance on how to support their loved one when they experience…

Unpaid carers of people with Parkinson’s who experience memory and thinking problems as a symptom of their Parkinson’s are being sought by researchers at Northumbria University for a study into whether iSupport-PD is an engaging and useful tool for unpaid carers.  The deadline for taking part in this research is 1 November 2024.  You can…

Palliative care charity Marie Curie has produced a new resource for local health and social care boards to help with the legal requirement to provide palliative care to those who need it across England.  Called the ICB Inspire Resource, aimed at NHS and local authority integrated care boards, it will support ICBs in their duty…

Leaders from across social care have come together to discuss the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and the benefits and risks of AI.  Following this, a position statement has been published by the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and it can be read here: https://www.oxford-aiethics.ox.ac.uk/oxford-statement-responsible-use-generative-ai-adult-social-care.    

All residents in care homes for older people will receive an additional covid booster jab this spring, PM Boris Johnson said, setting out the government’s plan for living with the virus.  But Alzheimer’s Society responded that the plan did not go far enough to protect people with dementia.  While details of the additional booster deployment…