A free sculpture trail, created in collaboration with dementia groups around Calderdale, West Yorkshire, is opening on Monday 18 May 2026 to coincide with Dementia Action Week. The trail, featuring a series of sculptures for visitors of all ages to enjoy, has been created by Natasha Brown, an artist based at Dean Clough and a…
The Association for Dementia Studies (ADS) at the University of Worcester has launched a survey to gather experiences of personal care from people living with dementia. The feedback from the survey will be used for a chapter in a book. The team at ADS say: “Are you living with dementia? We’d love to hear your…
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published a Renewed Women’s Health Strategy for England. The strategy aligns with the 10 Year Health Plan and includes recognition that women make up the majority of the social care workforce and unpaid carers in society, as well as being more likely to develop dementia. The…
Alive Activities has launched a ‘Step into May’ activity pack for care homes. ‘Step into May’ is Alive’s fundraising campaign, running from 1st to 31st May, that is encouraging everyone to ‘get moving to light up later life’. The Activity Pack contains ideas for nature-based activities for care home teams and residents. Alive say: “From…
The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) has launched an activity toolkit entitled ‘Technology in Activity Provision’. The toolkit is designed to help activity practitioners use technology to complement their practice, including to support music and reminiscence activities and maintain connection with family members and friends via video calls. NAPA describe their vision for using this…
Dementia UK has followed up the first (https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/my-life-with-dementia-podcast) and second (https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/dementia-uk-launch-second-series-of-my-life-with-dementia-podcast) series of their ‘My life with dementia’ podcast with a third series. Now hosted by Ted Lasso actor Kola Bokinni, the podcast features personal experiences of dementia with each story followed up by practical advice from Dementia UK’s Admiral Nurses. Find out more about…
A study about SAFER-Dem, a tool to help people with dementia to have safer and smoother transitions from mental health hospitals to their communities, has been published by BMJ Open. SAFER-Dem, an NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) supported, co-produced project led by researchers at The University of Manchester, has been shown to…
Dementia UK are developing a core outcome set for Admiral Nurses and are looking for up to two people living with dementia who have experience or knowledge of Admiral Nursing to join their Advisory Group for this project. The core outcome set being created will be used to measure the impact of Admiral Nurses across…
‘What would Maggie do?’, a book written by Michael Maslinski, has documented the nine years Michael lived with his wife Maggie in a care home. Maggie lived with dementia that began in her mid-fifties, and when she needed to go into a care home Michael made the decision to go with her, living alongside her…
Kiran Lalwani from the University of Liverpool is conducting research into the experiences of unpaid carers who are trying to access UK social care services for a person with a rarer type of dementia. For this study, social care services are defined as: care homes, day care, respite or home care, and a rarer type of…