Babs the Brain, a giant, walk-through inflatable brain, is touring towns across Scotland to promote better brain health as part of Alzheimer Scotland’s new partnership with Scotmid Cooperative. Babs the Brain, named in honour of the late Dame Barbara Windsor who died in 2020 of Alzheimer’s disease, began the Big Brain Tour of Scotland on…
The Alzheimer’s Society has used sport to boost the profile of dementia during World Alzheimer’s Month. Broadcasters and organisations including TNT Sports, Sky Sports, TalkSPORT, the Football Association, League Managers Association, Premier League and English Football League have worked with the Alzheimer’s Society on content including dementia-focused interviews and short films with leading sporting figures. …
WCS Care has implemented a retrofit circadian lighting solution that has measurably improved the wellbeing of residents living with dementia. The system WCS Care now have at Sycamores, a 1960s-built care home, mimics the natural progression of daylight, changing from bright white light (6,500K) in the day to warm, low, candlelight (2,200K) in the evening,…
Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has launched Wave 4 of the Dementia Attitudes Monitor. The Dementia Attitudes Monitor is a biennial survey, first introduced in 2018, that tracks how people in the UK think and feel about dementia. The survey asked over 2,000 people questions including: Findings include: See more findings here: https://dementiastatistics.org/attitudes/ Read the full…
Dementia UK has launched an Admiral Nurse Clinic to support Black, African and Caribbean communities. Admiral Nurses Mutsai Hove Bird and Safia Seini are leading the service. Mutsai says: “Working alongside my colleague Safia, I am humbled by the opportunity to provide specialist dementia advice, support and guidance to people from Black, African and Caribbean…
The Dementia Explorer Game has been launched by The Lewy Body Society. Created by a team led by Dr Clarissa Giebel, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Population Health – in collaboration with The Lewy Body Society – it follows on from Dr Giebel’s work developing the Dementia Inequalities Game (that…
Join Dementia Research has shared a film encouraging people of South Asian heritage to take part in dementia research. Join Dementia Research say: “Representation in research is crucial to ensure that everyone affected by dementia has access to the right treatments, care and support. Hear from people affected by dementia and a researcher as they…
Ron Coleman’s death has been announced by his wife, Karen. In her statement on 19 October 2025, Karen says: “My beautiful warrior husband Ron Coleman died this morning peacefully in his sleep. He fought hard all of his life, mostly for other people and for himself. Always there for whoever needed him. He was my…
People living with dementia walked out alongside the England and Wales men’s football teams for the friendly the two countries played at Wembley on 9 October 2025. Named the ‘Alzheimer’s Society International’, this fixture is the fourth of its kind since a partnership was established between the Alzheimer’s Society and The Football Association (English FA)…
Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) has announced that dementia will, for the first time, be formally ratified within the new UN Political Declaration on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health. Alzheimer’s Disease International say: “This inclusion represents a pivotal shift: dementia, projected to become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2040, will be acknowledged…