Following the success of their 2025 Green Letter Days initiative, Dementia Adventure has launched Green Letter Days 2026. The 2026 Green Letter Days programme includes cycling (using adapted bikes, tricycles or tandem bikes), garden visits (to enjoy guided tours, seasonal blooms and landscaped spaces), cricket (visits to iconic venues including Lord’s), accessible tennis, boat trips,…
Dementia Alliance International (DAI) has launched a webinar series about dementia inclusive environments. The aim of the webinar series, curated by the DAI Environmental Design Special Interest Group, is to raise awareness and share global knowledge and skills in designing inclusive environments for people living with cognitive impairments and dementia. The first webinar was delivered…
Dementia UK has launched a British Sign Language (BSL) service to support people who are deaf or hard of hearing to access Admiral Nurses. The service is in partnership with Sign Solutions and offers free online dementia support appointments with a BSL interpreter and an Admiral Nurse. This film explains more about Dementia UK’s BSL…
The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) has launched a FIFA World Cup Activity Toolkit to support Care Home Open Week 2026. The NAPA Toolkit includes ideas and practical ways in which care settings can focus activities around the 2026 football World Cup. NAPA say: “The World Cup is about more than football. It can spark…
In Control, a national charity working for an inclusive society, has launched the ‘Big Check In’, a survey to gather views and experiences about accessing health and social care from disabled people and those who draw on care and support. The survey asks for views and experiences about: In Control say: “We have set up…
Leanne Hague, a third year Trainee Clinical Psychologist at the University of Liverpool, is looking for participants for an interview study into unplanned hospital admissions for people with dementia. Participants should: Interviews will last up to 60 minutes and will be online or face-to-face if you live in the North West of England. Participants will…
A Cochrane review has been published that analysed amyloid-targeting drugs for Alzheimer’s disease. The review looked at data from 17 clinical trials into seven anti-amyloid drugs, including lecanemab and donanemab. The trials involved more than 20,000 people in both successful and unsuccessful trials. The review’s conclusion is that the treatments in these trials had no…
The Alzheimer’s Society has published a collection of reports entitled ‘The training gap: a hidden injustice in dementia care and how to fix it’. The reports focus on dementia training for social care staff across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland and were produced by Leeds Beckett University’s Centre for Dementia Research and IFF Research. The…
Care England, in partnership with Adaptive Care, has published a report entitled, ‘From Routine Checks to Needs-Led Monitoring – Modernising night-time care’. The report looks at the traditional model of night-time checking on residents and advocates a more modern approach of acoustic and visual monitoring in night-time care. The report uses evidence and case studies…
Dementia UK has published a report entitled ‘A better death: fixing palliative and end of life care for dementia’. The report documents challenges around palliative and end of life care including: The improvements that are being recommended in this report include: Dr Hilda Hayo, Chief Admiral Nurse and Chief Executive of Dementia UK, says: “People…