Channel 4 air special edition of 1966 World Cup in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society

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…

Health secretary Sajid Javid has held out the prospect of a 10-year plan to prevent dementia and boost funding for research. Speaking at Alzheimer’s Society’s annual conference, Javid pledged that the plan – the government’s long awaited dementia strategy now expected later this year – would focus on how medicines, science and technology can be…

Care management software provider Nourish Care has extended its capability by integrating data with Whzan Digital Health, a health monitoring system.  The initiative looks likely to bring adult social care and health care data together to help improve digital care planning.  Nourish Care said the Whzan system was connected to the NHS and used in…

A second Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia is being sought as part of the Power of Music Fund, supported by the Rayne Foundation.  The focus of the new centre will be enhancing the health and social care workforce’s ability to integrate music into dementia care. It will operate alongside the first Power of…

Marking Dementia Action Week a new injection of funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK will help an Oxford University team investigate the links between cholesterol and Alzheimer’s. “Cholesterol levels are normally tightly regulated in the brain, but there is mounting evidence that excess cholesterol contributes to the brain changes seen in the early stages of Alzheimer’s…