On the buses: Betty Bunce, who lives at the Bernard Sunley care home in Woking, got a nice surprise when she celebrated her 91st birthday recently. Anna Olejnik, staff member at the Friends of the Elderly home, presented Betty with the cake. Betty reminisced about life after the second world war: “Working as a clippie – or bus conductor – was a wonderful job. I had so many laughs with my drivers, no two days were ever the same.”
The Ageing and Dementia Research Centre at Bournemouth University are looking for care home managers, staff and volunteers to share their experiences of using digital technology to interact with people who have dementia and are living in care homes. The definition list of technology for this survey is quite broad and includes using tablets, smartphones,…
Seeing the same GP on every visit to the surgery significantly lowers health complications and emergency hospital admissions for people with dementia, an Exeter University study has found. More than 9,000 patient records were examined and they showed that fewer medicines were prescribed when the person with dementia was consistently seen by the same GP…
Dying people’s right to health care has been made explicit in law for the first time under new government plans for England. Alongside the government announcement, end of life charity Marie Curie released figures showing that around 215,000 people miss out on end-of-life care every year. Baroness Illora Finlay described the change in the law,…
Family Carers Ireland has published their State of Caring Report 2024. This follows Family Carers Ireland conducting their biennial State of Caring survey, which is the Republic of Ireland’s comprehensive survey to understand the lives and experiences of family carers. You can read the report here: https://familycarers.ie/media/3549/family-carers-ireland-state-of-caring-2024.pdf
An initial “strategic framework” has been published by the government as a prelude to its forthcoming Major Conditions Strategy (MCS) for England, which will set out plans for tackling six health conditions including dementia over the next five years. In his foreword to the framework, which is the “interim report” he promised when announcing the…
At a House of Lords event hosted by Lord Best, three new resources on Extra Care housing and dementia have been published as part of the DemECH project, run by the University of Worcester’s Association for Dementia Studies. Lord Best, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) “Housing for people with dementia” inquiry, oversaw the…