ADI 2024

‘Care Fully Considered’ is a new podcast from hosts Laura Barnes and Katy Styles, who are both unpaid carers. The podcast features experts sharing their views on key topics relating to unpaid carers and is part of the work of the We Care Campaign.  The promotion for the podcast says:  “There are only three types…

DRAGON (Dementia Research Action Group – Our Network) has launched at an event jointly hosted by Dementia United and the University of Manchester.  The network has been co-developed by people with lived experience of dementia and researchers. It is funded by the University of Manchester ‘Teams Build Dreams’ research programme and the NIHR and Alzheimer’s…

A new book, titled “Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain,” aims to combine the latest scientific findings about Alzheimer’s disease with the authors’ own experience of caring for parents with dementia. The book, by medical doctor Emily Clionsky and neuropsychologist Mitchell Clionsky, is designed as a practical guide to dementia risk and…

Following the launch in England of the new Reading Well for Dementia list https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/reading-well-for-dementia, a launch event has now taken place in Senedd, Wales, the home of the Welsh parliament.   In Wales, the Reading Well for dementia collection includes an extra title that is only available in the Welsh language ‘Datod: Straeon am Ddementia’  Find…

Using hearing aids may significantly reduce the risk of dementia among people with hearing loss, research published in Lancet Public Health suggests. A study involving more than 400,000 participants, drawing on the UK Biobank cohort, found that people with hearing loss who do not use hearing aids may be at higher risk of dementia than…

The government’s flagship initiative for finding dementia drug treatments – the “Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission” announced last year by the then PM Boris Johnson – is to be headed by Hilary Evans and Professor Nadeem Sarwar. Evans, CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK), and Sarwar, who has held leadership positions at global pharmaceutical company…