Dementia UK has shared a new animation to increase awareness of young onset dementia.
The animation includes information about symptoms that can be experienced by younger people, what those symptoms can be mistaken for, and the different challenges younger people face when living with dementia.
You can view the animation here:
Thrive, the gardening for health charity, has launched a Summer Wellbeing Calendar. The four-week calendar features active, mindful and creative activities, and aims to help users get a daily dose of summer self-care by encouraging them to connect to gardening and nature. Thrive say: “People can use the calendar to focus on their wellbeing and…
Dancing again: When Phyllis Haine (centre), who lives at the Aldbury care home in Poole, said she wanted to do the foxtrot and the waltz, staff set out to make her wish come true. Companionship team leader Sue Miles (right) says Phyllis often shares happy memories of putting on sparkly dancing shoes and arranged for…
The forthcoming national dementia strategy will include a major focus on prevention and research, health secretary Sajid Javid told delegates at the annual conference of the Alzheimer’s Society this week (17 May), announcing a 10-year plan he said would be visionary, properly funded and “more ambitious than anything we’ve done before”. Data suggests as much…
Newfoundland Diagnostics have collaborated with the Rightdose Self-Test and Treat App to provide an at-home test and treat service for those who test positive for urinary tract infections (UTIs). The process for patients involves ordering a UTI test, then using the QR code on the box to download and register with the Rightdose Test and…
Fourteen pilot schemes across England are attempting to increase diagnosis rates by checking care home residents to see whether they have dementia. Under the NHS’s £900,000 drive to revive the flagging dementia diagnosis rate, GPs will share lists of care home residents with specialist teams who will go into care homes. Nurses and other clinicians…
Alzheimer’s Society have been sharing more information about their Blood Biomarker Challenge. The Challenge, a collaboration with Alzheimer’s Research UK and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), is aiming to gather the information needed to introduce a blood test for dementia into the UK healthcare system. It is funded through a £5m award from…