It’s been announced that the UK Government’s Accelerating Reform Fund (ARF) is going to fund £22.6m of initiatives to support unpaid carers and care users in England. The local authority schemes that will be funded include those providing: You can find out more, including the areas of England where the new initiatives are being rolled out,…
Dementia Diaries, a project run by Innovations in Dementia, has made a renewed call for people living with dementia to become Dementia Diarists. Wayne has made this film to promote Dementia Diaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTsfd1bDpek You can find out more about Dementia Diaries here: https://dementiadiaries.org
Supersense Technologies is looking for people living with dementia to pilot their SenS2 hub, which is one of the shortlisted technologies for the Longitude Prize on Dementia https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/finalists-longitude-prize-announced. The SenS2 hub is described as a unique monitoring system which works without cameras or microphones, and can help a person living with dementia to retain independence and…
A new total-body Positron emission tomography (PET) scanner is now operational, co-managed by King’s College London and Imperial College London at St Thomas’ Hospital, London. PET scanning is an effective, non-invasive imaging technique that can detect diseases earlier in their development, supporting faster diagnosis which can be particularly helpful in complex presentations of dementia. The Department for Health…
Social Care Future, In Control and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) has published two resources under the banner of ‘Inclusive and Insightful Events’ to support involving people with lived experience in events. ‘Research into people’s lived experiences’ and ‘A practical guide to support speakers with lived experience at your event’ provide information and advice. These…
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…
Care England has collaborated with Oak House Kitchen to produce a white paper on dysphagia. The paper looks at best practice for supporting people with dysphagia, a condition that is estimated to affect four million people and often develops as a person lives with dementia. You can read the white paper here: https://www.careengland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Care-England-x-OHK-White-Paper-_-Nov24_-digital.pdf
Thank you, Dementia Community I really enjoyed the Congress this year. Great venue…lots of space, good straightforward food, loads of coffee…so much so I was awake half the night! But that’s my fault! What I value so highly about Congress is meeting so many people in person, having hugs, and just all the smiling. It…
Researchers from the University of Suffolk are looking for 25 people to trial Snapshot Boxes in social care settings. Snapshot Boxes, created by Suffolk firm Chronicle, are photo frames that play voice recordings, enabling a person with dementia to view photos alongside the voices of loved ones. The trial is part of a six-month research project,…
The Lewy Body Society has celebrated five years of funding Rachel Thompson’s role as the UK’s first Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy body dementia. Jacqui Cannon, CEO of Lewy Body Society, says: “We are so proud to have been funding this vital role for five years, it feels like a real milestone in the care of such a…