Brain Health Scotland promoting ‘My Amazing Brain’ for Brain Awareness Week

If you support a family member or friend living with dementia, researchers on the CareCoach study would like to hear from you.  CareCoach is an online support package, broken into modules, that focuses on helping unpaid carers develop knowledge, skills and confidence to care more effectively for a person living with dementia and improve the…

The Young Dementia Network has published the outcomes from their ‘Share your experiences’ campaign that was launched earlier this year.  The campaign asked participants to answer three questions and Young Dementia Network had over 200 responses.   A summary document has now been published sharing the responses – you can view this here: https://youngdementianetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Share-your-experiences-report-2024.pdf.  Young Dementia Network…

A campaign to raise money and highlight the impact of dementia has been launched by Alzheimer’s Society, including emotional TV and radio adverts showing what it can be like living with the condition. The ads, which  feature stories of couples affected by dementia, are narrated by actor Colin Firth. “Couples from across the UK have…

Arts charity Living Words is running CPD-accredited foundation courses for professional carers and nursing staff.  The charity’s Listen Out Loud Foundation Course is an online course designed to teach skills in effective communication with people with dementia using the Listen Out Loud methodology.  There are six 90-minute sessions designed to fit into care staff’s busy…

Research led by academics from Queen’s University Belfast and published in JAMA Network Open has suggested that consuming flavonoid-rich foods and drinks could lower a person’s dementia risk by more than a quarter.  The research was a population-based cohort study where dietary data from the UK Biobank was analysed from over 120,000 adults aged between…

Palliative and End of Life Care Statutory Guidance has been published by NHS England for new integrated care boards (ICBs).  It sets out the duties of ICBs, highlighting that palliative care should be a multi-agency activity and that it should be provided by the right professional at the right time.  “No single provider can provide…