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Family carers of people with dementia have a much greater need of formal grief counselling than other groups deemed eligible for bereavement care.  Findings from a UCL study of pre-death grief, published in the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, show that the need for formal counselling for dementia carers was around 300% higher than current predictions…

Dementia Carers Count has shared a seasonal advice page aimed at helping carers of loved ones with dementia over the festive period.  Read ‘Top tips for dementia carers at Christmas’ here: https://dementiacarers.org.uk/news/top-tips-for-dementia-carers-this-christmas/

A House of Commons debate to highlight the plight of dementia research heard how funding fell by 10% last year, despite a pledge from the government in its 2019 manifesto to double spending on such research. Leading the special debate last week Debbie Abrahams MP, who is co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia,…

A book documenting the life of human rights campaigner Professor Peter Mittler CBE has been published by the My Voice project, run by Manchester Jewish social care charity The Fed. Professor Mittler, who has dementia and has been active in the field, left Nazi-occupied Austria as an eight-year-old and came to England on the Kindertransport….

Ron Coleman’s death has been announced by his wife, Karen.  In her statement on 19 October 2025, Karen says:  “My beautiful warrior husband Ron Coleman died this morning peacefully in his sleep. He fought hard all of his life, mostly for other people and for himself. Always there for whoever needed him. He was my…

Dementia UK has released a new film entitled: ‘A pub conversation about dementia with Tommy and Andrew’.  Tommy lives with Alzheimer’s disease and Andrew is the primary carer for his mother who lives with vascular dementia. Together they talk about how, as men, they’ve approached their experiences of dementia and address why men can struggle…