Alzheimer’s Disease International partner with BBC StoryWorks on ‘Threads of Hope’

Leena Jassi, a researcher at the University of Bath, is looking for participants for a survey into the experiences of dementia caregivers from minority ethnic groups in the UK.  To participate you should identify as being from a minority ethnic group, live in the UK and care for someone (defined as supervision, emotional and physical…

Admiral Nurses share tips on “Supporting children and adolescents when a parent has young onset dementia” in new advice from Dementia UK.  Topics covered include juggling parenting and dementia, supporting your child, recognising themselves as young carers, and changing family dynamics. It is available at www.dementiauk.org.

An opera that aims to bring to life the subjective experience of dementia and reduce the stigma surrounding the condition is to be staged in English and Welsh in North Wales. The opera, entitled Y Bont/The Bridge, blends the human voice and instrumental music to create a piece giving the audience a sense of what…

The Together Project and Creative Engagement Services has successfully completed a grassroots intergenerational pilot project entitled ‘Haringey Intergenerational Podcast’.  The pilot project brought together young people aged 14–18 from Bruce Grove Youth Space and older people aged 72–85 from the local Haringey community to connect through the creation of podcasts.   The podcast episodes feature shared…

The iTalkBetter app, developed by the Neurotherapeutics Group at University College of London’s Queen Square Institute of Neurology (and supported by the Wellcome Trust), has been shown by an NIHR-supported study to significantly improve speech for people with the language disorder aphasia.  Aphasia is commonly caused by a stroke, severe head injury or brain tumours…