NIHR Research Programme for Social Care – Call 2 

A report from UK Dementia Congress. Paola Barbarino, CEO of Alzheimer’s Disease International, concluded her talk (via video) with a challenge that resonated strongly with those present: We call on the UK government to commit to the long-awaited reviewing of social care and ultimately improve access to post-diagnostic support for those living with dementia and…

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…

Meeting Centres across the UK are being invited to contribute a “square” to a blanket that will celebrate their achievement. Worcester University’s Association for Dementia Studies, instrumental in setting up Meeting Centres in the UK, will assemble the squares into a blanket to form a “wonderful representation of the Meeting Centres UK family.”  Squares should…

A study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that a new dementia risk score “calculator” could identify people most at risk of developing dementia in the next 14 years.  Based on two long-term studies, the risk score draws on a list of 11 predictive factors: age, education, history of diabetes, history of or current…

New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) indicates that, of the 137,321 people who died from Covid-19 in England and Wales in 2020 and 2021, just over one in five (21.8%) had dementia.  While dementia was the most common pre-existing condition in 2020, it was the third most common in 2021, behind diabetes…

The Churchill Fellowship has announced a new programme entitled: ‘Building a Society that Cares – How might we reimagine a care-centred future for the UK?’  The programme is looking to find ways that care can be used to humanise services, build resilience and community connections, and reimagine societal challenges.  The Churchill Fellowship say:  “The programme…