Dreams come true: When resident Nalini Bhagwat (left) asked staff at St Catherine’s View dementia care home in Winchester whether they could turn her New Year wish into reality, that’s exactly what they did. Nalini wanted to revisit some of her old Bollywood-inspired dance moves, so companionship team Laura Sheldrake took to social media and…
Charity Lorenzo’s House, which supports the children of adults with young onset dementia (YOD) has announced that its Third Annual Virtual Youth Summit will take place on 17 June. The summit is designed for people in the 8-30 age group who have a parent with YOD. It is expected to take forward the charity’s mission…
Providing end of life care requires specific skills and knowledge, so Skills for Care has partnered with Health Education England to create two learning pathways to help care workers learn what they need to know. The aim is to ensure the workforce can deliver end of life care confidently and competently and the learning pathways…
Admiral Nurse charity Dementia UK has published “Seven tips for handling difficult conversations” on its website, focusing on how to respond to differences of opinion among family members about how a loved with dementia should be cared for. Assembled with the help of Admiral Nurse Vic Lyons, the tips cover topics like preparing for the…
Registration is now open for the Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference, which returns for 2023 during Dementia Action Week. The conference will put a spotlight on making dementia a priority locally, bringing together local leaders in dementia from across the UK to share best practice and challenges, and progress towards aims and ambitions in diagnosis and…
Music charity Purple Angel as now notched up more than 3,250 personalised musical compilations, chosen by people with dementia themselves and sent out to them in care homes, hospitals and in their own homes. Purple Angel founder Norrms McNamara said free MP3 players could be ordered through norrms@gmail.com and would include a customised selection of…
Dementia diagnosis rates have “stagnated” since the pandemic, Alzheimer’s Society has said, calling on people to contribute to a new parliamentary inquiry that seeks to find out what the barriers are to a diagnosis. The inquiry, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Dementia, will consider how diagnosis rates slumped to 62.5% in December, compared…
There have been mixed reactions across health and care to the government’s decision to scrap plans for individual conditions like dementia and replace them with a combined Major Conditions Strategy (see JDC Newsletter, 2 February). Last year the government promised 10-year plans for various individual conditions, including dementia, cancer and mental health, but in January…
A new photographic exhibition intends to spark conversations about how society supports, respects and includes people who live with memory problems. Participants in the NIHR-funded APPLE-Tree dementia risk study, led by Queen Mary University of London and ILC-UK, collaborated with photographer and artist Sukey Parnell-Johnson to make and curate the public exhibition, at the Holy…
Alzheimer’s Society has called on the government to deliver on its dementia commitments after being told 25 times that the long-promised “ten-year plan for dementia” would appear “in due course”. An open letter, signed by 36,000 members of the public, was delivered by Society ambassadors to 10 Downing Street demanding that the government make dementia…