“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”…
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that dementia and Alzheimer’s disease was again the leading cause of death in 2022, accounting for 11.4% of deaths in England and Wales. In this category, 65,967 deaths were registered, compared with 61,250 (10.4%) in 2021, when it was also the leading cause of death. “Our most…
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…
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…
A £600,000 grant from the Arts Council will enable the appointment of seven “creative health associates” in each of the seven NHS regions with the aim of using creativity to promote health and wellbeing. The programme, announced by the National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH), is designed to foster conditions for creative health to be…
A PhD studentship is on offer from the Association for Dementia Studies (ADS) to look at the development and evaluation of a “best housing” assessment tool for people living with dementia in extra care housing. The fully funded, full-time studentship seeks to understand the reasons why people with dementia move out of extra care housing…
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…
In a bid to dispel common misconceptions about dementia, Care UK has produced a new video guide to help families understand what dementia really means when a loved one is diagnosed with the condition. The care home provider has pulled together advice from experts and families themselves to produce the video guide, called One Step…
We will remember them: Wren Hall, a specialist dementia nursing home in Nottinghamshire, hosted a special Remembrance Day on March 27 as a mark of respect to everyone affected by the pandemic. It was exactly three years after the home’s first family member tested positive for Covid-19. The “We Will Remember Day” brought people together…
Meeting Centres across the UK are being invited to contribute a “square” to a blanket that will celebrate their achievement. Worcester University’s Association for Dementia Studies, instrumental in setting up Meeting Centres in the UK, will assemble the squares into a blanket to form a “wonderful representation of the Meeting Centres UK family.” Squares should…