A film produced by the University of Sheffield in partnership with charity Age UK has been launched. Entitled ‘Living with Young-Onset Dementia: Our Music, Our Voice’, it features people living with young-onset dementia talking about their experiences and interactions with music, as well as exploring tools and technologies to support the enjoyment of music. The…
‘DomCare – The Benefits and Costs of Domiciliary Care’ study, a 3-year project funded by the NIHR Policy Research Programme, is looking for participants. Researchers are seeking homecare agencies or housing with care schemes in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, the East Midlands, or Yorkshire & Humber to help with data collection. Their goal is to understand…
A new title has been added to the Reconsidering Dementia series: ‘Living with Dementia Reconsidered’. Published by McGraw Hill and written by Linda Clare, Catherine Charlwood, Catherine Quinn and Christina Victor, it is a co-produced publication that shares research findings from a decade of the IDEAL programme. It also includes a dementia manifesto call to…
DementiaNet, a new online platform created to support people living with dementia and those who care for them, has been launched. It’s been developed from research and lived experience – two of the three founders of DementiaNet, Brian Schur and Hugh McGouran, have personal experience of dementia – and aims to provide user-friendly, personalised online…
BBC Morning Live has featured Gail Gregory and George Rook talking about their experiences of living with dementia and journaling/blogging. Dementia Diaries was also highlighted, with Steve Milton explaining what Dementia Diaries is. You can view the programme here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002cd30/morning-live-series-7-23052025 (Fast forward to 1 hour into the programme) Find out more about Dementia Diaries here:…
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has published a report with the findings from their 2025 Wellbeing Survey. The survey had over 2000 responses from care workers across the UK. Most notably around dementia care, the majority of care workers said they were supporting older people with a dementia diagnosis. The report documents care workers’ thoughts…
Cambridgeshire police has launched a Dementia Safeguarding Scheme. The scheme will see the force issuing hundreds of people with dementia a yellow Herbert Protocol wristband that looks similar to a watch but has built-in smart technology. The technology, known as Near Field Communication (NFC), enables anyone with a smartphone to scan the wristband to help…
Dementia UK has followed up the first series of their ‘My life with dementia’ podcast (which we covered here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/my-life-with-dementia-podcast) with a second series. Now hosted by charity ambassador and award-winning journalist and podcaster Marianne Jones (series one was hosted by actor Jim Broadbent), the podcast features personal experiences of dementia. Each story episode is followed…
Dementia Carers Count (DCC) has followed up their ‘What if…I’m not there to care?’ report (which we covered here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/dcc-publish-their-2024-survey-findings) by sharing a collection of dementia carers’ experiences. Dementia Carers Count brought this collection together having invited dementia carers to share their personal experiences of not having alternative care arrangements in place, their struggles to continue…
Housing LIN (Housing Learning and Improvement Network) has launched the fifth intake of their Future Leaders Programme. Sponsored by Sovereign Network Group (SNG), this initiative aims to bring together up to 10 individuals (early-career professionals with no more than three years of experience in the housing and related sectors) who share a passion for improving housing…