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  • Dementia is top cause of death

    Figures from the Office for National Statistics show that dementia and Alzheimer’s disease was again the leading cause of death in 2022, accounting for 11.4% of deaths in England and Wales.  In this category, 65,967 deaths were registered, compared with 61,250 (10.4%) in 2021, when it was also the leading cause of death. “Our most…

  • Filo Project up for hero award

    The Filo Project, which provides a special form of dementia day care for 350 clients across Devon, Somerset and East Lancashire, is up for an Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Hero Award today.  The Dementia Hero Awards on 28 April honour organisations and individuals who do life-changing work in dementia care.  In the Filo Project, “hosts” provide…

  • Guide to better brain health

    A new book, titled “Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain,” aims to combine the latest scientific findings about Alzheimer’s disease with the authors’ own experience of caring for parents with dementia. The book, by medical doctor Emily Clionsky and neuropsychologist Mitchell Clionsky, is designed as a practical guide to dementia risk and…

  • Video guide debunks myths

    In a bid to dispel common misconceptions about dementia, Care UK has produced a new video guide to help families understand what dementia really means when a loved one is diagnosed with the condition. The care home provider has pulled together advice from experts and families themselves to produce the video guide, called One Step…

  • We will remember them

    We will remember them: Wren Hall, a specialist dementia nursing home in Nottinghamshire, hosted a special Remembrance Day on March 27 as a mark of respect to everyone affected by the pandemic.  It was exactly three years after the home’s first family member tested positive for Covid-19.  The “We Will Remember Day” brought people together…

  • Celebration squares

    Meeting Centres across the UK are being invited to contribute a “square” to a blanket that will celebrate their achievement. Worcester University’s Association for Dementia Studies, instrumental in setting up Meeting Centres in the UK, will assemble the squares into a blanket to form a “wonderful representation of the Meeting Centres UK family.”  Squares should…

  • Volunteer to career

    Health Education England (HEE) has awarded funding worth £700,000 to 28 health and care organisations as part of its “Volunteer to Career” programme.  The programme, set up by the charity Helpforce, helps volunteers who want to work in the NHS to progress into a health and care career.  Under the initiative, the organisations will have…