The Marmalade Trust, a charity raising awareness of loneliness, is promoting micro-connections for their annual awareness campaign – Loneliness Awareness Week – by encouraging everyone to enjoy Random Acts of Connection. The Marmalade Trust say: “Almost half of the population of the UK report feeling lonely at least some of the time, and loneliness is…
Gardening for health charity, Thrive, has launched a new campaign to support Men’s Health Week 2024. Through the ‘Plants not Pressure’ campaign, Thrive are promoting gardening and green spaces as being beneficial to men’s physical and mental strength. This view has been backed by studies that show gardening and time in nature can have a…
iSupport for Young People is now available (in both English and Welsh) to support 11-17-year-olds who live in families affected by dementia. Created in collaboration with young dementia carers, it is part of a suite of iSupport resources that includes iSupport for adult carers, rare dementias and South Asian carers. ‘iSupport’ was developed by the…
The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has given a ‘not upheld’ ruling on the Alzheimer’s Society’s advert ‘The Long Goodbye’. The ASA received 235 complaints that the advert was excessively distressing, offensive and irresponsible. In response, the ruling says: “Alzheimer’s Society said that they were conscious from the outset that a campaign about the realities of dementia…
Dementia Carers Count (DCC) has published their 2024-2026 strategy, created in collaboration with carers. Frances Lawrence, Chief Executive of DCC, says: “From listening to our staff with caring expertise and personal lived experience of being a dementia carer, to working with our Carers Advisory Panel and thousands of survey respondents, we’ve listened. And what we’ve…
University College London (UCL) has received a £2.7 million donation from The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation to purchase two townhouses on Woburn Square, near to existing support services for rare dementias at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. These townhouses will undergo a programme of dementia-enabling refurbishment work before the new ‘Rare Dementia Support Centre’…
At the Rainbow’s End, a script-in-hand play based on the lives of older LGBTQ+ people who have experienced homophobia and transphobia in care settings or in their own home when receiving care, is coming to London in June 2024. As well as watching the play, the audience can also participate in a Q&A with the…
The first set of study findings for the Good Life with Dementia course has been published by the University of York. The Good Life course is a 6-7-week course that involves people living with dementia talking and sharing experiences to provide mutual support. The course is co-designed, and peer-tutors deliver the course with support from…
The Reading Well for Dementia book list has been relaunched following consultation with people with lived experience, health professionals and leading organisations. The Reading Well scheme is run by national charity The Reading Agency and delivered in partnership with Libraries Connected and SCL Cymru. The updated list for dementia features a wide range of publications, including those…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has produced a publication looking back over the first decade of The Care Act. ‘The Care Act 2014: 10 years on from Royal Assent’ reflects on whether the aims of the legislation have been achieved and, where they haven’t, what changes are needed to fully realise the Act’s ambitions. The…