The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has given a ‘not upheld’ ruling on the Alzheimer’s Society’s advert ‘The Long Goodbye’. The ASA received 235 complaints that the advert was excessively distressing, offensive and irresponsible. In response, the ruling says: “Alzheimer’s Society said that they were conscious from the outset that a campaign about the realities of dementia…
Dementia Carers Count (DCC) has published their 2024-2026 strategy, created in collaboration with carers. Frances Lawrence, Chief Executive of DCC, says: “From listening to our staff with caring expertise and personal lived experience of being a dementia carer, to working with our Carers Advisory Panel and thousands of survey respondents, we’ve listened. And what we’ve…
University College London (UCL) has received a £2.7 million donation from The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation to purchase two townhouses on Woburn Square, near to existing support services for rare dementias at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. These townhouses will undergo a programme of dementia-enabling refurbishment work before the new ‘Rare Dementia Support Centre’…
The first set of study findings for the Good Life with Dementia course has been published by the University of York. The Good Life course is a 6-7-week course that involves people living with dementia talking and sharing experiences to provide mutual support. The course is co-designed, and peer-tutors deliver the course with support from…
At the Rainbow’s End, a script-in-hand play based on the lives of older LGBTQ+ people who have experienced homophobia and transphobia in care settings or in their own home when receiving care, is coming to London in June 2024. As well as watching the play, the audience can also participate in a Q&A with the…
The Reading Well for Dementia book list has been relaunched following consultation with people with lived experience, health professionals and leading organisations. The Reading Well scheme is run by national charity The Reading Agency and delivered in partnership with Libraries Connected and SCL Cymru. The updated list for dementia features a wide range of publications, including those…
The Local Government Association (LGA) has produced a publication looking back over the first decade of The Care Act. ‘The Care Act 2014: 10 years on from Royal Assent’ reflects on whether the aims of the legislation have been achieved and, where they haven’t, what changes are needed to fully realise the Act’s ambitions. The…
Cadbury’s has partnered with Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) to provide thousands of free boxes of six, limited-edition retro Diary Milk bars to help stimulate conversations and support memory activities for people living with dementia. Cadbury’s have launched ‘Memory Bars’ in response to requests from families and care homes for nostalgic Cadbury packaging. You can find…
Dementia NI has released a single and music video, written by Dementia NI members and local singer-songwriter Cora Kelly, to give people who are newly diagnosed in Northern Ireland and beyond hope that they aren’t alone and there is support available to help them live as well as possible. The single and music video will…
BBC 2 has aired: The Jennings v Alzheimer’s. The promotion for the documentary says: “When a mutant gene causing Alzheimer’s is discovered in the Jennings family, it leads scientists on a journey to develop a cure and leaves family members with a terrible dilemma. The Jennings are the first family in the world to be diagnosed…