Research from Anglia Ruskin University shows how care home staff can be empowered to provide creative activities for residents. The outcome of a four-year project with care home provider Excelcare, arts charity Magic Me and four other arts organisations, the report illustrates how to build relationships between artists, residents and staff through participation in the…
Game changer: Tennis coach Judy Murray – mother of former Wimbledon champion Andy – shared her top tips for brain health and mental wellbeing at Edinburgh Dementia Café. Part of a Brain Health Scotland initiative, Judy’s approach makes use of everyday items like balloons, ribbons and soft balls to make tennis accessible. “I’ve seen the…
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…
The deadline for abstract submissions for Alzheimer’s Disease International conference 2024 in Krakow is Tuesday 10 October. Details at: https://adiconference.org/abstracts
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…