Carers UK urge unpaid carers to participate in State of Caring Survey 2025 

Vacancy rates have increased in the adult social care sector from 6.1% in April 2021 to 10.3% in April 2022, according to Skills for Care’s latest workforce tracking data. During the pandemic vacancy rates dropped with fewer jobs being available in other sectors and some care workers reporting they felt they had to help the…

At a lively conference in London in June, held to celebrate NAPA’s 25th year and national programme Arts in Care Homes, a wide variety of speakers shared ideas and experience of encouraging creativity and meaningful engagement in activity. Keynote speaker Jackie Pool, QCS Dementia Care Champion, focused attention on the words ‘meaningful’ and ‘engagement’, suggesting…

‘A Divided Kingdom: Steps Towards Intergenerational Solidarity’ has been launched by Intergenerational England.  This report makes the case for embedding intergenerational practice across sectors, from education and housing to health and workforce, and includes dementia care examples from general practice and community-based dementia cafes.   Find out more and download the report here: https://www.intergenerationalengland.org/adividedkingdom 

The Times Health Commission has published a 10-point plan and report that looks at health and social care in Britain today.  The commission, which was set up in January 2023, has been evidence-based and sought to learn the lessons from the best examples of health and care provision in the UK and abroad.   The authors…

Data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has shown the following:  “Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease continued to be the top leading cause of death in England and Wales in 2023, with 66,876 deaths registered (11.6% of all deaths).”  This is the second year in a row that dementia has been recorded as the…

‘My Wonky Brain’, a children’s novel about dementia written and illustrated by ten+ people aged between 12 and 60, has been launched.  The book has been created from a collaboration between Bold (Bringing Out Leaders in Dementia) Scotland and Capital Theatres, as was inspired by Willy Gilder’s experiences of living with dementia. The project was…