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NHS England has published Neighbourhood Health Guidelines for 2025/26.  The Guidelines are aimed at Integrated Care Boards (ICBs), local authorities and health and care providers. Expectations for implementation are:  These Guidelines specifically name the following population groups as the primary focus for 2025/26:  You can read the Neighbourhood Health Guidelines 2025/26 here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/neighbourhood-health-guidelines-2025-26/ 

The Dementia Researcher Communities Online Journal Clubs Platform has launched a Journal Club focused on Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA).  The organisers say:   “This Club provides a collaborative space for researchers focused on primary progressive aphasia, including diagnostic practices, clinical management and translational research. Whether you’re developing interventions, exploring clinical assessment techniques, or interested in how…

Dementia UK has produced free ‘Dementia at Work’ resources to help employers support the needs of employees and customers who are living with or caring for someone with dementia.  Topics covered include: employers’ responsibilities, noticing changes in an employee, employees’ rights and supporting carers in the workplace.  You can find out more and download the…

The social care Workforce ‘Together’, ‘I’, and ‘We’ Statements framework has been launched, having been developed collaboratively by people drawing on care, caregivers and social care professionals.  Entitled ‘Making it happen together: what good care and support look like’ the Workforce Statements framework includes co-produced statements that are written from three different perspectives:  The Local…

The UK government has announced £6.7m of funding for research aimed at creating technologies to help people living with dementia to manage their symptoms and remain safe and well at home for longer.  The four networks that will benefit from this funding are:  The networks will collaborate with people living with dementia and carers to…

Having been halted by the onset of the COVID pandemic, the Forget-Me-Not train is running again.  The Forget-Me-Not train runs along the Esk Valley Line between Whitby and Middlesbrough for 17-mile journeys that take in the scenery of the North York Moors.   Community group Esk Valley Railway organises the trips to give people living with dementia,…

Alzheimer’s Society has selected twelve finalists for Launchpad, an initiative that’s part of the Society’s Innovation Programme. The finalists have all proposed initiatives designed to improve quality of life, treatment, care and support for people affected by dementia, most notably by tackling some of the main issues connected to hospitalisation.  The innovators who’ve been selected…

Another £2m of funding has been announced to enable the READ-OUT study to offer digital cognitive tests alongside blood tests.  READ-OUT (which we last reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/blood-biomarker-trial-underway-in-the-read-out-study) is part of the Blood Biomarker Challenge (which we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/blood-biomarker-challenge-for-dementia-diagnosis). The digital cognitive tests will measure memory and thinking and take less than 10 minutes to…

The BBC has run a season across TV, iPlayer and Radio entitled: ‘Memories and Dementia: Starting the Conversation’.  Led by Dr Punam Krishan, ‘Memories and Dementia’ ran from 24-28 March 2025 and drew on the BBC’s content archive through specially curated reminiscence collections aimed at triggering memories and starting conversations.  Discover all of the ‘Memories…

A selection of resources is now available to help older people, families and staff when a care home closes.  Created by social care experts at the University of Birmingham as part of a research project called ‘Achieving Closure’ that was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the resources aim to…