An intergenerational space is to be opened as part of a Nottinghamshire care home to bring together residents and children from a neighbouring nursery (see photo). The initiative by Wren Hall, a dementia specialist nursing home, will see the opening of a “new collaborative building” with Little Wrens nursery, which is attached to the care…
Novel therapies for the “treatment of agitation” and disease-modifying therapies will help drive up the annual growth rate in Alzheimer’s disease drugs to 20% over a period of 10 years from 2020, according to an analysis by GlobalData. The market in eight of the world’s major economies, including the US and UK, was worth $2.2…
A timely dementia diagnosis should be a fundamental right, argues a new “Consensus Statement” signed by a group of 27 dementia experts. In the statement, the experts call for better funded and evidence-based dementia care pathways to make timely diagnosis a reality and say that health services must commit to returning diagnosis rates to pre-pandemic…
“This is a beautiful community – I felt immediately welcomed and comfortable” said Ronald Amanze, addressing the audience in the opening session of NAPA’s Year of Connected Communities Conference in London on 6 June 2023. He and his close friend Christine Maddocks (both are living well with dementia) answered the question from Hilary Woodhead, NAPA’s…
Alzheimer’s Society has been named as one of the UK’s top employers in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 survey. The charity scored highly for employee engagement and workplace happiness based on anonymised employee feedback. Overall engagement score was 86%, 13% above the industry average, 89% expressed confidence in management, while job satisfaction…
Eminent historian Professor Joanna Bourke recently gave a lecture on the cultural history of dementia now available online, in which she looks at how it has evolved from being considered a “normal part of ageing” to being considered “a disease that demands a cure.” She argues for a more open attitude to cognitive difference and…
Engaging Dementia’s online 15th annual International Dementia Conference took place on 25 and 26 May. The conference featured over 20 speakers across two days, with a particular focus on topics of direct interest to those living with dementia and their family carers. Day one focused on local communities, resources for family carers, and receiving care…
A public engagement event on Monday 26 June in London will be an evening of South Asian music and dance as a response to issues of memory and identity. Naaheed Mukadam, Alzheimer’s Society senior research fellow at UCL, worked with dance and music artists to put together the show in order to combat stigma around…
All the benefits of the arts in care are charted in a new report researched and written by Dr Hannah Zeilig and Millie van der Byl Williams. It looks in particular at the health and social impacts of “Our Day Out”, a programme of creative workshops run for older people in Norfolk over the past…
A week-long celebration of the arts in care will culminate in the National Day of Arts in Care Homes (#AICH2023) on September 24. This annual event, launched by the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), focuses on creativity in care settings and the ways in which this supports health and wellbeing. Care providers and partners such…