Dr Benjamin Ajibade from Northumbria University is looking for care homes in England who may be interested in taking part in a study to develop a culturally responsive care Framework and Toolkit to support care-home staff working with Black older adults. Participation in the study would involve supporting recruitment of residents, family carers, and staff,…
An American real estate investment company, Welltower, has bought up Barchester Healthcare as well as HC-One assets, in deal worth over £6 billion. Barchester has over 260 care homes across the UK. The purchase is considered one of the largest care home deals globally. ...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is to look again at its decision not to fund Alzheimer’s disease drugs lecanemab and donanemab for use on the NHS. An appeal has found that NICE failed to properly account for the wider impact of the treatments, including on unpaid carers, when calculating the cost…
Dementia Alliance International (DAI) has launched a webinar series about dementia inclusive environments. The aim of the webinar series, curated by the DAI Environmental Design Special Interest Group, is to raise awareness and share global knowledge and skills in designing inclusive environments for people living with cognitive impairments and dementia. The first webinar was delivered…
A Cochrane review has been published that analysed amyloid-targeting drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. The review looked at data from 17 clinical trials into seven anti-amyloid drugs, including lecanemab and donanemab. The trials involved more than 20,000 people in both successful and unsuccessful trials. The review’s conclusion is that the treatments in these trials had no…
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has launched ‘Centring Care Workers: A Guide’. The guide, which was co-produced with the CWC Care Worker Advisory Board, is intended to help organisations and leaders to engage meaningfully with care workers by providing practical approaches to involving care workers in decision-making, service design and policy development. Karolina Gerlich, CEO…
The Scottish government has passed ‘Anne’s Law’ to give care home residents legal rights to visits from a designated loved one. The law is named after Anne Duke, a woman with dementia who died in November 2021 after being separated from her family during the Covid-19 pandemic and follows a campaign by Anne’s daughter. Anne’s…...