Alzheimer’s Society has announced that it’s investing £9million into funding three new Doctoral Training Centres. The centres will support nearly 90 students over five years to enter dementia research and will be led by Professor Stuart Allan at Manchester University, Professor John-Paul Taylor at Newcastle University, and Professor Nathan Davies and Professor Claudia Cooper at…
Permission has been granted for researchers from the universities of Edinburgh and Dundee to use artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse 1.6 million brain scans for patterns that indicate the signs of dementia. NHS Scotland granted access to the anonymised CT and MRI images which were collected during routine clinical care between 2008 and 2018. The…
NHS England has published a refreshed Dementia Scenario highlighting key elements of optimal care across the dementia pathway. It puts a fictional person at the centre of the story to show the difference between a suboptimal – but realistic – pathway of care, compared to an optimal one. The scenario is available on the NHS…
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has published a new briefing entitled ‘The future of care needs: a whole systems approach’. The briefing predicts the changing care landscape across the next decade, suggesting that an extra 400,000 people in the UK could be providing care for more than 10 hours a week by 2035. JRF also…
Dr Euan Winton, a design expert at the Heriot-Watt University’s School of Textiles and Design in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, has published research proposing a new framework that outlines collaborative design (co-design) where people living with dementia use their own ideas and actions to shape, lead and deliver projects, rather than always having projects…
Carers UK has published a report entitled: ‘Taking the next step for working carers – Introducing a new right to paid Carer’s Leave’. The report’s findings suggest that introducing paid carers leave could benefit millions of workers by reducing work-related inequalities, with employers seeing productivity gains up to £8.2 billion per year. Carers UK, who…
A dementia strategy has been developed for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in collaboration with Cornwall Council, the Council of the Isles of Scilly and the NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board. The strategy promotes the ‘well pathway’ for dementia: preventing well, diagnosing well, treating well, supporting well, living well and…
Simon’s Dementia Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Activities Blog, a free, accessible library of over 250 themed activity pages designed to support ongoing (or maintenance) CST for people with mild to moderate dementia, has launched a vlog. The YouTube vlog, featuring Simon O’Donovan MBE who is a retired Dementia Nurse Specialist, is aimed at people living…
Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) has published a report entitled: ‘Values and the workforce: the expectations of people with lived experience’. The report is the culmination of work undertaken by TLAP, at the request of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), to support the development of the Care Workforce Pathway. TLAP talked to…
As recently reported https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/inequalities-initiative-funding, the Alzheimer’s Society has opened a funding call for research proposals that tackle healthcare inequalities for people living with dementia and their carers. The deadline for expressions of interest has now been extended to 23 September 2024 to allow more researchers with ideas to tackle inequalities in dementia diagnosis and post-diagnostic support to apply. …