Following being named the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/centre-of-excellence-for-music, Manchester Camerata has begun weekly Music Cafés for people living with dementia and their carers in community centres across ten boroughs of Greater Manchester. Under the banner of the ‘Music in Mind’ programme, Manchester Camerata describe the cafes as providing, “In…
The Francis Crick Institute and UCL has launched RAPID, a project looking at how air pollution can impact the brain and lead to dementia. Funded by Race Against Dementia in partnership with the Rosetrees Trust, Team RAPID will look at how PM2.5, a type of air pollution that is about 30 times finer than a…
Dementia Carers Count (DCC) have revamped their website, with the aim of making it easier for carers to find the information they need. You can find the new-look site here: https://dementiacarers.org.uk The 2024 Dementia Carers Count survey is also still live (until the end of November 2024). DCC report over 1,000 responses so far but they…
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has used the recent Black History Month to share a free resource: ‘The Culturally Appropriate Care Guide’. The guide is aimed at care providers across England, Scotland and Wales and supports the delivery of person-centred care that respects the cultural identities of people who draw on care and support services. QCS…
Skills for Care has published ‘The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England 2024’. In the report, under ‘Categories of training recorded in ASC-WDS, 2023/24’ it is detailed that only 29% of the social care workforce have received dementia training (See page 114 here: https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Adult-Social-Care-Workforce-Data/Workforce-intelligence/documents/State-of-the-adult-social-care-sector/The-state-of-the-adult-social-care-sector-and-workforce-in-England-2024.pdf). In the 2023 version of this report,…
Innovations in Dementia has launched a film showing the work they’ve been doing with Lenovo to create an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool powered by the experiences of people living with dementia. ‘Alzheimer’s Intelligence’ is a photorealistic 3D avatar named ‘Liv’ with custom AI. The avatar was created from a composite of images of 10 people…
A collaboration between University Hospital Southampton and the University of Southampton on a new laser-based test to diagnose dementia has reported 93% accuracy in the 150 people who’ve been initially assessed. The test is being developed under the Holistic Optical Biomarkers to Transform Dementia Diagnosis (HOpE) project, and is funded by UK Research and Innovation…
A partnership of people from the health, science and business sectors in Cambridge is collaborating with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA – the UK government’s new research funding agency) to create new neurotechnologies, including brain implants that could treat dementia. The 3-year partnership between the University of Cambridge and ARIA is intended to…
Marie Curie has released an end-of-life playlist curated by terminally ill people for the end of life. Ranging from upbeat dance tracks to calming melodies, each piece on the Spotify playlist was chosen to feature on someone’s personal ‘end of life playlist’. Music therapy expert, Lecturer, and Honorary Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Queen’s…
Dementia Carers Count (DCC) are offering free counselling sessions to unpaid carers. The counselling puts unpaid carers in touch with DCC’s clinical psychologist, Dr Gemma Fitzgerald, who specialises in supporting dementia carers. DCC can offer carers up to six free remote counselling sessions. The sessions are intended to help unpaid carers feel listened to and…