BBC One’s The One Show has featured the 80th birthday celebration of participants in the Insight 46 study. Insight 46 dates back to 1946 when more than 5,000 babies were enrolled into what has become the world’s longest continuously studied birth cohort. Over the years the participants have taken part in numerous health checks and…
The third wave of the Adult Social Care Workforce Survey is live and seeking participants who work in care-related roles in adult social care in England. Participants are wanted including care workers, personal assistants, managers, nurses and social workers. Questions include demographics and role, work-related quality of life, wellbeing, learning and development, violence, harassment, abuse…
Gina Awad’s second book, ‘When Time Aligns: Stories of Care from a Dementia Companion’, has been published. Gina’s first book ‘United: Caring for our loved ones living with dementia’ was published in 2022 (illustrated by the late Tony Husband) and is now complemented by ‘When Time Aligns’ (illustrated by Mark Hannon). This second book sees…
Winstanley College student, Aaliyah Evans, has used her college film project to raise awareness of Lewy body dementia (LBD) in a tribute to her granddad, Thomas Taylor, who is 73 and living with LBD. Aaliyah’s film – ‘If Through Time’ – dramatises Thomas’s younger years before bringing viewers into the present day. Aaliyah’s friends and…
Following the survey participation opportunity for the LEND (Lived Experience Narratives in Dementia) study that we reported on earlier this year (https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/lend-dementia-survey), LEND researchers are asking people with lived experience of dementia or supporting someone with dementia to gift their narrative (their story) to LEND. Researchers plan to use the stories to develop an online…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has shared a survey to gather the views of organisations and individuals who have knowledge, experience or interest in dementia care to help inform their forthcoming dementia guidance. The survey is part of the preliminary work CQC are doing ahead of launching their formal consultation on the guidance in early…
Oxford University Press has published ‘Fighting for our Minds: The Neuroscience of Defeating Dementia’. The book is authored by Professor Tara Spires-Jones who is a neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh and an Alzheimer Scotland Scientific Ambassador. The book explores what scientists are learning about dementia, emerging treatments, and the reasons for hope about what…
The Galen and Hilary Weston Foundation has launched their Lewy Body Dementia 2026 Programme. The Programme supports high-risk, high-reward translational research to advance the development, validation, clinical translation or implementation of biomarkers for Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia (PDD); and/or treatments that directly reduce the severity of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms…
Participants are being sought for a focus group to understand how different parts of a person’s life and identity shape their experiences of living with young onset dementia, including any barriers or unfair treatment people may face. The research is being conducted by the University of West London (UWL) who are exploring lived experiences of…
Dementia UK has made recordings from their 2026 Summer School, that we reported on here https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/dementia-uk-publish-2026-summer-school-programme, available to view on YouTube. 2026 represented Dementia UK’s sixth Summer School. Thirteen recordings were made from the sessions covering a wide range of dementia related topics, each one being delivered by Admiral Nurses and other experts. You can…