Recognition for leading figures in dementia care Janet Rhian Lewis – Founder and Facilitator, Ty-Golau Dementia Charitable Trust. For services to People with Dementia and their Families. Heather Yvonne Wenban – Lead Nurse for Dementia, Powys Teaching Health Board. For services to People with Dementia in Powys and Wales. We send our warmest congratulations to…
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) has published new guidance, resources and a position paper on working with people who have dementia. The documents cover many different aspects relating to communication, eating, drinking and swallowing. There is information that is relevant to both professionals and members of the public, and co-production with…
Marie Curie and Alzheimer’s Society have partnered to make £1m available for new research that can improve the end of life experiences of people with dementia and unpaid family carers. Marie Curie says: “Despite dementia and Alzheimer’s disease being the leading cause of death in the UK, there are significant gaps in both evidence and…
Expert Citizens CIC has opened nominations for their National Insight Awards 2024. The organisers say: “These awards celebrate individuals, teams, or organisations that have made a significant contribution to promoting the value of lived experience in the design, delivery, commissioning, evaluation, or continuous improvement of services for people experiencing social disadvantage.” At Dementia Community we…
Researchers on the ENACT-DEM project (Centring the lived experience of dementia within policy, practice and community development) are looking for people living with dementia and unpaid carers to participate in their research. ENACT-DEM is an ESRC-funded international research project led by a team at the University of Stirling in collaboration with colleagues in London, Canada…
The British Geriatric Society (BGS) has published ten ‘asks’ of the next government, as they seek to highlight the healthcare needs of older people. The BGS ‘asks’ fall under three themes of providing: You can read more here: https://www.bgs.org.uk/GE2024
Dementia UK and the Alzheimer’s Society have both produced information to support people with dementia to be able to vote in the upcoming General Election. Read Dementia UK’s ‘A guide to voting in the General Election for people living with dementia’ here: https://www.dementiauk.org/news/voting-and-dementia/ Read Alzheimer’s Society’s ‘Can people with dementia vote?’ here: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/blog/can-people-with-dementia-vote
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Carers, which advocates on behalf of unpaid carers, has launched a report calling on all political parties to commit to developing a new National Carers Strategy after the General Election. The APPG say: “Since the end of the Carers Action Plan 2018-2020, there has not been a dedicated cross-Government…
A new website, DemCon, has been launched to provide information to support people living with dementia at home to manage continence. The website – which is still under development – was created by researchers at the University of Southampton and King’s College London, with funding from the Alzheimer’s Society and the National Institute for Health…
Researchers at the University of East Anglia are recruiting children and young people aged 4-15-years-old who are affected by dementia, and dementia professionals who work with young people affected by dementia, to take part in the CareCoach research study (interviews and workshops). CareCoach aims to create digital resources to support children and young people who…