ADI 2024

The Care Workers’ Charity has launched its Mental Wellbeing Survey.  The survey is designed to identify a range of issues faced by care workers. The results will be used by The Care Workers’ Charity to influence policy decisions.   The survey will take around 10-20 minutes to fill in and there is prize draw for everyone…

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) have awarded accreditation to the Wicking Dementia Centre in Australia for their globally impactful educational initiatives in aged and dementia care.  The Wicking Dementia Centre, which is part of the University of Tasmania, have had over 500,000 enrolments in their Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) on dementia, with participants joining their…

Dancing to a soundtrack of Indian-themed music was all part of the fun at St Catherine’s View in Winchester, where chefs and care staff teamed up for an unexpected cultural celebration.  “I can’t believe people arranged all this for me,” said resident Nalini Bhagwat (centre), who lived near Mumbai when young. Joining in the dancing…

Marie Curie has published their ‘Better End of Life Report 2024’ that’s subtitled: ‘Time to Care: findings from a nationally representative survey of experiences at the end of life in England and Wales’. It’s been compiled by King’s College London’s Cicely Saunders Institute, Hull York Medical School at University of Hull, and the University of…

The Young Dementia Network has launched a survey to review the Network’s progress and develop the next Network strategy which will set out what the Young Dementia Network want to achieve from now until 2028.  The survey is anonymous and will take around 15 minutes to complete. You can participate here: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/youngdementianetworksurvey2025/. The survey closes…

As part of Championing Social Care’s Care Home Open Week partnership with The Utley Foundation’s Music for Dementia campaign, a limited number of free tickets are being offered to care staff for the nationwide tour of Matt Seager’s award-winning play, ‘In Other Words’.  ‘In Other Words’ explores the transformative power of music to help reconnect…