NASP launch Green Social Prescribing Innovation Community 

Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), in partnership with Dementia Change Action Network (DCAN), has launched a report entitled ‘I just want to be able to dance’.  The report, written by Neil Crowther and Liz Leach, champions a renewed focus on wellbeing for people with dementia, highlighting connection, community, and personalised care and support as key…

The University of Bradford Centre for Applied Dementia Studies are designing information to help families to live well with dementia, and are looking for carers from the Afro Caribbean community to share their opinions.  Researchers are running two workshops – on 5th and 8th March 2024 – and are providing £40 gift vouchers as a…

Following an application process for the UK’s second Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia (which we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/applications-open-for-second-centre-of-excellence-for-music-and-dementia), Hertfordshire has been named as the successful applicant.  Funded through The National Academy for Social Prescribing’s Power of Music Fund, which is supported by The Rayne Foundation, The Utley Foundation and others, the work…

Professor Claire Surr and Professor Louisa Ells from the School of Health at Leeds Beckett University have both been appointed as Senior Investigators for the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), receiving funding for four years to support their research activities while undertaking these senior leadership roles for the NIHR.  NIHR Senior Investigators…

Following the launch of Scotland’s new dementia strategy, ‘Dementia in Scotland: Everyone’s Story’, in May 2023, the Scottish Government and COSLA (The voice of local government in Scotland) have published a delivery plan for how they will work with people with lived experience and delivery partners to implement the strategy.  This delivery plan runs from…

Dementia NI has celebrated its 10-year anniversary.  Founded in 2015 by five people living with a diagnosis of dementia to enable them to have their voices heard and improve services for themselves and others, the charity has grown into a leading dementia organisation in Northern Ireland with around 100 members, all of whom are living…