The Long Goodbye – Alzheimer’s Society film 

The Care and Support Alliance (CSA) is looking for a diverse range of pen portraits to help the Casey Commission (which we last reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/casey-commission-terms-of-reference-published) to understand the real-life experiences of people who need, use, or provide care and support.   It’s hoped the pen portraits will reflect the experiences of older people, disabled…

The Lewy Body Society has announced plans to celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2026.  The annual Lewy Body Awareness Week will move from June to January in 2026 to coincide with World Lewy Body Day (28 January). The Lewy Body Society Celebration Dinner will be on Saturday 18th April 2026 – for more information and…

To celebrate the 2024 National Playlist Day on 20 September, Playlist for Life has launched an awareness raising campaign inviting contributors to share photos and the songs associated with them for a ‘The Soundtrack of your life’ story.  The campaign aims to celebrate special moments in a person’s life, and the musical soundtrack to those…

If you support a family member or friend living with dementia, researchers on the CareCoach study would like to hear from you.  CareCoach is an online support package, broken into modules, that focuses on helping unpaid carers develop knowledge, skills and confidence to care more effectively for a person living with dementia and improve the…

Carers UK has published a report entitled: ‘Taking the next step for working carers – Introducing a new right to paid Carer’s Leave’.  The report’s findings suggest that introducing paid carers leave could benefit millions of workers by reducing work-related inequalities, with employers seeing productivity gains up to £8.2 billion per year.  Carers UK, who…

Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) has announced its participation in and launch of the AD-RIDDLE project.   The project is a collaboration between academics, healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies, regulatory bodies and patient advocacy organisations. It aims to improve detection, diagnosis and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease and, whilst initially focused on European countries, it’s hoped it…