Four innovative products assisting people with dementia have been identified as part of Alzheimer’s Society’s Accelerator Programme, which fosters creative ideas in the field. The products are Start Voice Control, which will help reduce distress among those experiencing communication difficulties; the Music Project, which will enhance life through music and meaningful activity; Smart Socks from…
The Young Dementia Network (YDN) has developed a resource to support implementation of the NICE guideline for young onset dementia. Intended for commissioners and frontline health and care professionals, it provides guidance on how to meet the needs of working age people living with dementia. YDN said that young onset dementia had significant differences from…
Health secretary Sajid Javid has held out the prospect of a 10-year plan to prevent dementia and boost funding for research. Speaking at Alzheimer’s Society’s annual conference, Javid pledged that the plan – the government’s long awaited dementia strategy now expected later this year – would focus on how medicines, science and technology can be…
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…