Christians in Care has launched a new website to provide an online home to support Christians working in the UK care sector.
Christians in Care is a network that provides safe spaces for Christian carers to share the highs and lows of working in social care.
You can find out more here: http://www.christiansincare.org/
The Lewy Body Society has celebrated five years of funding Rachel Thompson’s role as the UK’s first Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy body dementia. Jacqui Cannon, CEO of Lewy Body Society, says: “We are so proud to have been funding this vital role for five years, it feels like a real milestone in the care of such a…
Dementia UK has released a new film entitled: ‘A pub conversation about dementia with Tommy and Andrew’. Tommy lives with Alzheimer’s disease and Andrew is the primary carer for his mother who lives with vascular dementia. Together they talk about how, as men, they’ve approached their experiences of dementia and address why men can struggle…
DRAGON (Dementia Research Action Group – Our Network) has launched at an event jointly hosted by Dementia United and the University of Manchester. The network has been co-developed by people with lived experience of dementia and researchers. It is funded by the University of Manchester ‘Teams Build Dreams’ research programme and the NIHR and Alzheimer’s…
Marie Curie has released an end-of-life playlist curated by terminally ill people for the end of life. Ranging from upbeat dance tracks to calming melodies, each piece on the Spotify playlist was chosen to feature on someone’s personal ‘end of life playlist’. Music therapy expert, Lecturer, and Honorary Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Queen’s…
“We can diagnose and start to manage dementia earlier than we do currently,” the Chief Medical Officer’s Report on Health in an Ageing Society has admitted. Professor Chris Whitty’s annual report touches on dementia in several places, including in a chapter on secondary prevention and early diagnosis in older age. “An early diagnosis and access…
The SPLENDID (Social prescribing for people to live enjoyably with dementia in daily life) Research Programme is looking for people living with dementia, or caring for a relative or close friend with dementia, to join their involvement group to help shape their research into social prescribing. The SPLENDID research is aiming to develop a way…