Age UK has published a report entitled ‘A step change: improving delivery of the Disabled Facilities Grant’ that is calling on local authorities to improve the way they deliver home adaptations for older and disabled people. Age UK say that two-thirds of local authorities took longer than the recommended six months to deliver adaptations through…
‘I can still swing a spade’: a qualitative exploratory study of gardening groups for people with dementia: Ageing & Society. A study into community gardening groups has been published by Cambridge University Press entitled, ‘I can still swing a spade’: a qualitative exploratory study of gardening groups for people with dementia’. The study, conducted by…
The British Geriatric Society (BGS) has published a list of preferred language when referring to older people in a health context. It has been compiled to help healthcare professionals, academics and authors to avoid language which may be considered unacceptable or inappropriate. The list provides a guide regarding language to avoid and preferred alternatives. It…
The SPLENDID (Social prescribing for people to live enjoyably with dementia in daily life) Research Programme is looking for people living with dementia, or caring for a relative or close friend with dementia, to join their involvement group to help shape their research into social prescribing. The SPLENDID research is aiming to develop a way…
Alzheimer’s Research UK has launched a new film, as part of their ‘Connections’ series, shining a light on dementia with Lewy Bodies (DBL). The film features Des O’Sullivan and his wife Valli who describe their experiences of Des’ DBL, which he was diagnosed with in 2016 aged 60. You can view the film here:
Care England, Stow Healthcare and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL) has conducted a 6-month trial at eight care homes that has shown switching to decaffeinated hot drinks cuts toilet-related falls by 35%. The trial followed a similar initiative by UHL in 2021, where it was found that switching to decaffeinated drinks reduced bladder…
Today is Alzheimer’s Prevention Day, an awareness-raising initiative from world-leading brain health scientists to increase understanding of scientifically proven ways to reduce a person’s chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Each of the experts involved in this initiative has recorded a 3-minute film about an action they’d recommend to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s. There is…
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched ‘Seeing the whole person supports better care’, a campaign to support nurses to think holistically about each person they support. The campaign includes case studies that share the experiences of nurses and a one-page PDF that provides a simple explanation of holistic support. You can find out…
The Care Workers Charity (CWC) has released its 2023 Impact Report, documenting CWC’s achievements and milestones in their mission to support care workers and advocate for the social care workforce. Highlights from the report include: You can read the report here: https://www.thecareworkerscharity.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Care-Workers-Charity-Impact-Report-2023-Final.pdf
The findings of a research study (published in October 2023) entitled ‘Hard to Reach and Hidden: Improving the Identification of Young Dementia Carers’ has been represented in an animation about the visibility and needs of young dementia carers. The ‘What do young dementia carers need?’ animation details a number of help and support needs including: …