Ahead of the next General Election, Carers UK has published their manifesto for unpaid carers, calling on the next government to commit to a funded, cross-government 10-year National Carers Strategy.
Carers UK has made a range of recommendations for politicians and policy-makers, and has also drafted an open letter to the future Prime Minister which they are calling on supporters to sign.
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The UK Government’s Department for Health and Social Care has announced that genetic sequencing will be conducted on 50,000 samples from the UK Biobank in a collaboration with Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a life science company, to create an ‘epigenetic map’ of the human genome to improve understanding of conditions including dementia. The Department for Health…
The Filo Project, which provides a special form of dementia day care for 350 clients across Devon, Somerset and East Lancashire, is up for an Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Hero Award today. The Dementia Hero Awards on 28 April honour organisations and individuals who do life-changing work in dementia care. In the Filo Project, “hosts” provide…
Care association National Care Forum (NCF) has welcomed plans by the government to discharge more people from hospital by buying up places in care homes. Thousands of placements will be purchased for people who are medically fit to be discharged, as part of a £250 million initiative to free up more beds on hospital wards….
Type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for dementia, but new research suggests that a drug used to treat the diabetes simultaneously reduced the risk of dementia. Scientists at Seoul University discovered that people with type 2 diabetes who were prescribed pioglitazone had a lower dementia risk compared with those who weren’t prescribed the…
“Thank You Day 2023” is on Sunday 2 July and will be a musical celebration of the contribution of family carers who do so much for people living with dementia. Well known singer Tony Christie has joined with charity Music for Dementia to launch the day, re-recording his song “Thank You for Being a Friend”…
Average length of stay in a care home has decreased to around 13 months, compared with 1.8 years before the pandemic and 2.2 years in 2011, according to figures quoted by the Downing investment company. The company states that the sector is changing because the needs of those moving into care are increasingly acute. Mark…