Dementia care to meet the needs of a wide range of ethnic groups is the focus of a new guide from NHS England. Titled Intercultural dementia care: A guide for health and care workers and written in collaboration with Alzheimer Europe, it draws on the experience and knowledge of experts and builds on previous reports…
A charity specialising in medical ID jewellery, which is working with the police to trace and support people with dementia who become lost, is offering first year membership free. MedicAlert UK has launched the “Safe & Found” programme in the UK, in which the charity holds a copy of the Herbert Protocol Form containing a…
Young Dementia Network (YDN) members have been urged to take part in a consultation with the government on its proposed Major Conditions Strategy, a five year strategy for dementia and other conditions like cancer and mental ill-health. YDN chair Tessa Gutteridge has written to members calling on them to participate so that young onset dementia…
Worcester University researcher Rosemary Davies, who is a qualified counsellor, is looking for research participants with mild to moderate dementia to assist her with her project at the Association for Dementia Studies. She hopes volunteers will contribute to the aims of her research, which are to improve counselling for those with a recent diagnosis by…
Care home residents’ favourite recipes are contained in a new book called Nellsar Care and Cookery, which has been published online as a “celebration of person-centred catering, nutritional support and seasonal recipes” (see photo). The cookbook is a collection of 28 recipes favoured by residents at the family run care group Nellsar, based in the…
A nurse-led young onset dementia service in Northamptonshire will be highlighted in a webinar on 21 June. The younger persons with dementia team in the county will lead the webinar, which will show how what they describe as their unique model provides the continuity of support needed by people on the diagnostic pathway. Questions to…
Future vaccines against Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia will be the topic of discussion in Alzheimer’s Disease International’s (ADI) second “fireside chat”, which takes place online on 28 June. Titled “From research to reality: The future of vaccines for Alzheimer’s and dementia,” the chat will feature experts Wendy Weidner, head of research and…
An intergenerational space is to be opened as part of a Nottinghamshire care home to bring together residents and children from a neighbouring nursery (see photo). The initiative by Wren Hall, a dementia specialist nursing home, will see the opening of a “new collaborative building” with Little Wrens nursery, which is attached to the care…
Novel therapies for the “treatment of agitation” and disease-modifying therapies will help drive up the annual growth rate in Alzheimer’s disease drugs to 20% over a period of 10 years from 2020, according to an analysis by GlobalData. The market in eight of the world’s major economies, including the US and UK, was worth $2.2…
A timely dementia diagnosis should be a fundamental right, argues a new “Consensus Statement” signed by a group of 27 dementia experts. In the statement, the experts call for better funded and evidence-based dementia care pathways to make timely diagnosis a reality and say that health services must commit to returning diagnosis rates to pre-pandemic…