The NHS App has introduced a family access feature, enabling users to add other profiles to their app account to manage the health needs of relatives they are caring for who are registered at the same GP practice. Verification checks are done through national NHS systems and via the GP practice before access is granted….
Age UK has published ‘The State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2025’. This, the tenth yearly edition of this report, reveals declining health amongst older people, unequal access to services, and growing pressures on unpaid carers and frontline staff. Dementia is mentioned in the report, most notably in Chapter 2.1.5. Caroline…
‘Magical Musical Memories’, an interactive book containing the musical memories of the people living in Dormy Care Communities care homes in Dorset, Hampshire, Wales and Herefordshire, has been published. The book documents the special memories, stories and anecdotes of residents that relate to a particular song or piece of music and includes QR codes to…
A study published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine has suggested that alcohol use, even at moderate levels, may have no safe threshold when it comes to brain health. Researchers from The University of Oxford, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge combined observational data from more than half a million participants in the US Million Veteran…
Dr Clarissa Giebel and Emma Williams from the University of Liverpool are looking for research participants who are living with a neurodegenerative condition (for example: dementia, MS, MND) or caring for a family member or friend with a neurodegenerative condition, to take part in research into social care needs assessments. Participants will be asked to…
The BBC has aired: ‘Disclosure – Care Home Undercover’. The programme follows BBC Scotland journalist Catriona MacPhee as she goes undercover as a cleaner at a care home in Inverness. The film features residents living with dementia and numerous incredibly distressing scenes. You can watch the programme on iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002k175/disclosure-care-home-undercover
The Lancet has published a series of three papers on Alzheimer’s disease. Featuring forty prominent Alzheimer’s disease specialists, these papers outline the healthcare, policy and social changes needed to make the most of developments in diagnosis, treatment and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, alongside a look at what the future might hold. You can read the…
Dementia UK has used World Alzheimer’s Month to share a series of films showing ‘Open Conversations’ about experiences of dementia. The films feature Sylvia and George, a married couple, Ronnie and Will, a mum and son, and Elene and Safia. Elene’s mum was diagnosed with dementia and Safia is a dementia specialist Admiral Nurse supporting…
Care England has published a report entitled, ‘From Inactivity to Independence: A Fitness Approach for Older People in Adult Social Care’. This report is based on a partnership between Be Great Fitness and Tanglewood Care Homes that has seen weekly seated exercise sessions delivered to Tanglewood Care Home residents since August 2024. These sessions, tailored…
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has celebrated a year of their Care Worker Advisory Board and Champions Project at a House of Lords reception, attended by Dementia Community. At the reception Hannah Reseigh-Lincoln, a member of the Advisory Board, spoke about her experiences as a frontline care worker: “Becoming a care worker, alongside it’s challenges,…