Age UK has published a new report ‘A hidden crisis: Older people and deprivation of liberty in care homes’ highlighting the need for reform of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) system. DoLS is intended to be a system that provides legal protection for older people who have lost their mental capacity, often due to…
The Centre for Social Justice has published a report entitled: ‘Creating a Britain that Works and Cares’ which looks at how to support family carers in employment. The report draws on statistics from a national survey of unpaid working-age (16-64 year old) carers that was conducted in November 2023 by The Centre for Social Justice…
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has launched its Call 2 for research proposals that relate to social care. The Call closes at 1pm on 26 June 2024. More information can be found here: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/research-programme-for-social-care-call-2/35589. There is also a researcher webinar on 4 April 2024 – you can register for that here:…
Research published by Dementia Carers Count (DCC), who surveyed 1,300 unpaid dementia carers, has shown that unpaid female carers are less likely than unpaid male carers to access support from local authorities (advice and information, Carer’s Assessments and funded support). Frances Lawrence, CEO of Dementia Carers Count said: “Our research shows that over half of…
The NHS are advising all over 40s to get their blood pressure checked to detect the ‘silent killer’ of high blood pressure (hypertension). Hypertension often has no symptoms but, if left untreated, can lead to fatal heart attacks, strokes, kidney disease and vascular dementia. It is believed that a third of cases of high blood…
Alzheimer’s Research have reported that in the first year of their online tool ‘Think Brain Health Check-in’ being live, 300,000 people have completed the check-in. Alzheimer’s Research have marked this anniversary by sharing the five biggest lessons they’ve learnt so far from the data they’ve collected, and you can read about those lessons here: https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/300000-people-took-our-check-in-heres-what-weve-learned/. …
Board members are deeply concerned about the new Alzheimer’s Society advertising campaign which equates living with dementia as enduring multiple deaths. Such a comparison undermines the humanity and dignity of people living with dementia and perpetuates negative stereotypes and misconceptions. We accept that dementia faces people with challenges and changes, but to imply that dementia…
The Alzheimer’s Society has launched a new film – you can view it here: Further comment from Dementia Community will follow in due course.
The NHS Talking Therapies Positive Practice Guide for Older People (2024) has been published by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP), Age UK, the Mental Health Foundation and NHS Talking Therapies services. The guide is intended to be a resource for therapists who work with older people, and aims to address the…
A suite of resources has been created as part of a project entitled: Living alone with dementia – managing without informal support to contact and navigate services. The project, which was funded by a grant from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), ran from April 2022 to November 2023. It was a…