Care England has collaborated with Oak House Kitchen to produce a white paper on dysphagia.
The paper looks at best practice for supporting people with dysphagia, a condition that is estimated to affect four million people and often develops as a person lives with dementia.
You can read the white paper here: https://www.careengland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Care-England-x-OHK-White-Paper-_-Nov24_-digital.pdf
The King’s Fund has undertaken a research project commissioned by the Alzheimer’s Society to look at the role Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) can play in dementia diagnosis and care. They looked at the opportunities ICSs present to approach dementia differently and to improve diagnosis rates. They also identified barriers and enablers to improving dementia diagnosis…
What should the next phase of the government’s dementia strategy focus on? A forthcoming dementia care webinar, hosted by Public Policy Exchange, will assess the impact of the last strategy and discuss ideas on what the government’s proposed 10-year plan for dementia care should contain. Entitled Improving Dementia Care: Tackling the Crisis in Care Quality,…
Up to 73% of dementia cases could be prevented by lifestyle changes, a new study of 344,000 people over 15 years suggests. Researchers behind the study, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, investigated 210 modifiable risk factors and found that personal measures such as increasing physical strength, more leisure and social activities, more time…
To celebrate the 2024 National Playlist Day on 20 September, Playlist for Life has launched an awareness raising campaign inviting contributors to share photos and the songs associated with them for a ‘The Soundtrack of your life’ story. The campaign aims to celebrate special moments in a person’s life, and the musical soundtrack to those…
A new documentary, The Memory Boom, has premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The film is by Antosh Wojcik and Xenia Glenn from Sleepwalker Studios in Dorset and is described as: “An experimental feature that recreates the experiences of dementia through an immersive blend of spoken word, documentary, dramatic reconstruction, and never-before-seen decayed archive…
The 5th International Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Conference will be held in Hong Kong on 28th June 2024. Submissions are invited for oral/poster presentations and workshops – deadline 31 Oct 2023.