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The Bob & Diane Fund is excited to announce photographer Cheryle St. Onge as the 2021 grantee for  her photography project, Calling the Birds Home.    This yearly photography grant is to support visual storytelling about Alzheimer’s and dementia.  

Brain Health Scotland, an Alzheimer Scotland initiative, has created a free brain health activity pack for children. The pack includes a quiz, brain hat activity and a colouring sheet. It has a football theme for anyone missing the World Cup or looking forward to the new season. A perfect activity for the school summer holidays….

The Together Project, a national charity that aims to boost wellbeing, reduce loneliness and foster community engagement through intergenerational experiences, has published updates on its impact and work in 2023.  The Together Project encompasses different work-streams, which often include involvement from people with dementia. It has published the following documents:  You can read all the…

A new system of Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) will replace the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) next year, so a short film has been produced showing how LPS will “seek to promote practice which aligns with human rights and the core principles and duties of the Care Act 2014”.  Made by the Social Care Institute…

Alzheimer’s Society has teamed up with the government-funded National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to invest £7.5 million in 45 new post-doctoral posts in dementia research. It is hoped that the investment will counter a recent decrease in the number of early career researchers in the field and ultimately improve care, diagnosis and…