The charity Music for Dementia is celebrating Carers Week this week (6-12 June) by highlighting the support on offer to carers – as well as the people they care for – to experience the therapeutic benefits of music. In particular, the charity has turned the spotlight on Musica Music’s Press Play to Rewind programme, Playlist…
Jill Manthorpe, professor of social work at King’s College London and member of JDC’s editorial advisory board, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. Professor Manthorpe, who has made a major contribution to dementia care research, said the honour recognised the fact that social care and social work research had “come of…
More than 1,000 in-person and online delegates are expected at ADI 2022 this week, the global dementia care conference taking place in London (9-11 June). Organisers Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) say it will be an opportunity to network with people living with dementia, carers, professionals and researchers. For more information on the 35th Global Conference…
The founder of one of the leading care home providers providing dementia care, Hallmark Care Homes, has received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to social care and philanthropy. Avnish Goyal founded Hallmark Care Homes 25 years ago. Among his many achievements and contributions Avnish has been Chair of Care England,…
People living with dementia from South Asian communities will benefit from improved culturally sensitive support, thanks to a new online toolkit launched by universities and charities. The toolkit hosted by the Race Equality Foundation will provide enhanced care for members of South Asian communities – many of whom receive significantly less effective dementia care from statutory services compared to…
On the buses: Betty Bunce, who lives at the Bernard Sunley care home in Woking, got a nice surprise when she celebrated her 91st birthday recently. Anna Olejnik, staff member at the Friends of the Elderly home, presented Betty with the cake. Betty reminisced about life after the second world war: “Working as a clippie…
A boost for Alzheimer’s Research UK’s (ARUK) fundraising efforts has come with the recruitment of Iceland Foods managing director Richard Walker as an ambassador. Walker, whose own mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in 2011 and died last year, said it was a “privilege to do this in memory of her”. Through its charitable…
A new blog on Alzheimer’s Society’s website is an apt reminder of an important symbol of remembrance – the blue flower badges that the charity promotes as representing the dementia cause. The forget-me-not pin badges are worn by people in support of the charity or to raise awareness, often because a loved one has dementia….
“Personal interventions in care homes” will be the theme of this year’s second Margaret Butterworth Care Home Forum, which takes place on 22 June (2-4pm). There will be two speakers at the forum, a regular event focusing on dementia care in communal settings. Dr Sue Woodward, senior lecturer in adult nursing at King’s College London,…
Marking Dementia Action Week a new injection of funding from Alzheimer’s Research UK will help an Oxford University team investigate the links between cholesterol and Alzheimer’s. “Cholesterol levels are normally tightly regulated in the brain, but there is mounting evidence that excess cholesterol contributes to the brain changes seen in the early stages of Alzheimer’s…