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Palliative care charity Marie Curie has produced a new resource for local health and social care boards to help with the legal requirement to provide palliative care to those who need it across England.  Called the ICB Inspire Resource, aimed at NHS and local authority integrated care boards, it will support ICBs in their duty…

The deadline for abstract submissions for Alzheimer’s Disease International conference 2024 in Krakow is Tuesday 10 October. Details at: https://adiconference.org/abstracts 

Using hearing aids may significantly reduce the risk of dementia among people with hearing loss, research published in Lancet Public Health suggests. A study involving more than 400,000 participants, drawing on the UK Biobank cohort, found that people with hearing loss who do not use hearing aids may be at higher risk of dementia than…

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published a new guideline entitled, ‘Falls: assessment and prevention in older people and in people 50 and over at higher risk’.  The guideline updates and replaces the 2013 NICE guideline on falls and includes recommendations on:  Professor Jonathan Benger, Chief Medical Officer and Interim Director…

UCL and Tower Hamlets memory clinic psychiatrist Dr Nick Bass will lead Young Dementia Network’s November webinar. He and Jana Mikova, clinical nurse specialist in genomic medicine, will explain the North Thames Genomic Medicine Service Alliance transformation project to embed genomic investigation in mental health service-provided memory clinics. They will go on to discuss implications…

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) has launched their Social Care Impact Awards.  The awards have been created to identify, recognise and reward small organisations doing exceptional work in social care.   SCIE say:  “Are you a small user-led organisation, or a small voluntary or community organisation that works in social care? Do you need…