Funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has been announced for developing a brain health app. Worth £1.9 million, the funding will enable work to begin on the REACTIVE app, which will monitor brain health in older adults through regular cognitive tests while also providing a brain training programme for them. …
Derby Theatre has published Nicky Bellenger’s new play “Everywhere”, to be performed by young people but exploring and shining a light on dementia in a sensitive, stigma-reducing way. Available free, the play is also intended as a resource for all ages to support a greater understanding of the dementia. “Everywhere” is the result of a creative and…
More should be done to offer homeshare arrangements as an option when people leave hospital, says the Homeshare Association in a new report, which identifies dementia and poor mobility as the primary drivers for seeking these arrangements. Homeshare matches older people who need some help to live independently in their own homes with younger people…
A blueprint to help more people go home from hospital and regain their independence has been produced by the National Care Forum (NCF), which represents non-profit care providers. Designed to support the NHS’s new intermediate care framework, the NCF blueprint advocates and describes effective accommodation-based intermediate care and reablement. Published in partnership with the Care…
A study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that a new dementia risk score “calculator” could identify people most at risk of developing dementia in the next 14 years. Based on two long-term studies, the risk score draws on a list of 11 predictive factors: age, education, history of diabetes, history of or current…
Alleviating the pressures placed by dementia on society, the NHS and the economy should be a priority for the next government, Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) recommends in its new report on what should be in political party manifestos at the next general election. With the party conference season in full swing, ARUK is keen to…
Less than half (49%) of people responding to an Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) survey were able to name memory loss as an effect of dementia. Nearly a quarter (22%) said they did not know how dementia affects people. These findings emerged from a survey of 2162 people, which ARUK commissioned to support a new campaign…
The World Alzheimer Report 2023 is now available from Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) focusing on risk reduction and the ways in which dementia risk factors are experienced around the world. Case studies highlight how risk reduction is undertaken in various parts of the world, such as eating healthily, physical exercise, learning, socialising and much else. …
Alzheimer’s Society has published advice on what to do if someone with dementia has apathy, a condition in which the individual apparently loses interest in doing things they used to enjoy. In the advice, written by Clare Burgon, the Society says that apathy often goes unrecognised, even though it is common in most types of…