Campaigning charity Parkinson’s UK has called for better training for health professionals on Parkinson’s related dementia and produced a new toolkit to help them. The toolkit gives an overview of Parkinson’s dementia, including risk factors, symptoms and assessments, while also suggesting treatment strategies. It is aimed at health and care professionals who support people with…
Revving up for a party: More than 100 bikers turned up for John Fletcher’s 91st birthday following an appeal on community Facebook groups. John, a resident at Studley Rose care home in Warwickshire, is a motorbike enthusiast and used to be the proud owner of classic bikes such as a Royal Enfield, Triumph and BSA. …
Dr Shirley Evans has been appointed director of the Association for Dementia Studies (ADS) at the University of Worcester following a spell as interim director. While at ADS Dr Evans has played a key part in driving forward the Meeting Centres programme in the UK, which has mushroomed from 13 centres before the pandemic to…
Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) has put out a call for abstracts for presentations at its annual conference in Krakow, Poland, in 2024. ADI’s 36th Global Conference runs from 24-26 April and is subtitled “Dementia: Insights, Innovations and Inspirations.” Both scientific and non-scientific abstracts are welcomed around the seven action areas of the World Health Organisation…
A threefold increase in delayed discharges and 855,000 emergency admissions to hospital for older people (in 2019/20) that might have been avoided are just two of the headline figures from a new report by Age UK. According to the report, one in six emergency admissions of people over 75 occur within 30 days of last…
Figures from Skills for Care reveal that care worker vacancies have fallen from a historic high of 165,000 last year to just over 150,000. While the vacancy rate remains above pre-pandemic levels, it will provide some reassurance in a sector that has been struggling with skills shortages. Responding to the report, Nuffield Trust deputy policy…
New results from the final stage of extensive clinical trials for the anti-amyloid immunotherapy drug “donanemab” have confirmed significant benefits for people in the early stage of Alzheimer’s disease. The drug, which was shown to slow cognitive and functional decline by 22%, could receive regulatory approval for use in the USA by the end of…
Winning ways: Artist Willy Gilder’s Self Portrait with Alzheimer’s has won a prize in an art competition run by the Edinburgh Practice together with Alzheimer Scotland. Willy says: “It was painted shortly after diagnosis and represents an amount of confusion”. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2021, he lives in Edinburgh and devotes his time to painting,…
The Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at Stirling University is encouraging care providers to make use of its Environment for Ageing and Dementia Design Assessment Tool (EADDAT) by inviting them to self-certify free of charge during July. The DSDC said self-certification would reassure people with dementia using providers’ services that their needs were being actively…
Admiral Nurses share tips on “Supporting children and adolescents when a parent has young onset dementia” in new advice from Dementia UK. Topics covered include juggling parenting and dementia, supporting your child, recognising themselves as young carers, and changing family dynamics. It is available at www.dementiauk.org.