Following the launch of Scotland’s new dementia strategy, ‘Dementia in Scotland: Everyone’s Story’, in May 2023, the Scottish Government and COSLA (The voice of local government in Scotland) have published a delivery plan for how they will work with people with lived experience and delivery partners to implement the strategy. This delivery plan runs from…
The University of Bradford Centre for Applied Dementia Studies are designing information to help families to live well with dementia, and are looking for carers from the Afro Caribbean community to share their opinions. Researchers are running two workshops – on 5th and 8th March 2024 – and are providing £40 gift vouchers as a…
A survey commissioned by Home Instead has shown that family carer responsibilities are disproportionately affecting women. Key stats from the research (conducted by Savanta, who spoke to 2000 people across the UK) include: There is greater expectation on women to meet caring responsibilities than men, according to 88% of females and 65% of men. Similarly,…
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have launched a new website. SCIE’s work centres around co-producing, sharing, and supporting the use of the best available knowledge and evidence about what works in social care and social work. You can visit the new website here: https://www.scie.org.uk/. An abridged SCIE dementia resource can be found here:…
At Dementia Community we join with people across the UK in the Day of Reflection. 2024 marks the fourth annual Marie Curie Day of Reflection, an event to remember everyone who died during the pandemic. We especially hold in our thoughts everyone living with dementia, their families and our health and care colleagues who will…
A new eBook has been published that aims to combat stigma by sharing real-life accounts from people living with dementia and care partners across 13 countries in Asia. The eBook Project, led by Emily Ong, has involved 20 contributors and was officially launched in December 2023 at the ADI Asia Pacific Conference in Taiwan. You…
Carers UK have responded to the needs of carers who don’t use computers or the internet by launching a new information phone service. Carers can call the freephone telephone service on 0800 888 6999 and follow the options provided.
The Dementia Dog Project, a collaboration between Alzheimer Scotland and Dogs for Good, has a young Labrador looking for a new home in Glasgow with a person who is in the earlier stages of dementia and is living with a full-time, unpaid carer. The Labrador is specially trained to help people living with dementia, and…
Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) have launched their 2024 Attitudes Towards Dementia global survey. The survey is open to everyone and aims to build a picture about prevailing attitudes and stigma towards dementia. The survey is currently available in English and many other languages, with more available soon. Take the survey here: https://lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_71FXXETjeLzzvzE Find out…
The BBC’s Panorama programme has aired a documentary on dementia. The BBC says of the content: “Around 900,000 people in the UK are living with dementia, and two-thirds of them have Alzheimer’s. For patients and their loved ones, it’s a devastating disease. But two new drugs have shown, for the first time, that the relentless…