Consultation opened on content of the End-of-Life Care and Frailty frameworks

Re-engage has launched their new Research Service that aims to support interventions that can reduce loneliness and isolation for older people.  Jess Doyle, Lead for the Research Accelerator Programme at Re-engage, says:  “We have to recognise the experience, knowledge and fantastic life stories older people have and make sure they are not ignored and forgotten….

A government policy of discharging older people from hospitals to care homes at the start of the Covid pandemic has been condemned in the High Court. In the scramble for hospital space, the government sought to free up 25,000 beds, a policy that involved discharging untested patients to care homes.  Declaring the policy unlawful, the…

You can’t be person-centred without being culturally inclusive, and you can’t be culturally inclusive without being person-centred. The two go hand in hand. Dr Karan Jutlla, Head of the Centre for Applied and Inclusive Health Research and Dementia Lead, University of Wolverhampton, opened her address with this statement, and went on to give telling examples…

Specialist dementia care provider Belong has appointed Martin Rix as its new chief executive. Rix will lead the next phase of the care village operator’s expansion as it prepares to open three new villages over the next three years. Previously chief operating officer at Norfolk-based Norse Care, Rix was responsible for services in 36 care…

Catriona Conway from the University of Plymouth is conducting a research study into the lived experiences and meaning of tourism and travel occupations/activities for younger people living with dementia, and their influence on health and wellbeing.  If you are from the UK, aged under 65, have a diagnosis of dementia and are interested in taking part, you can…

Dementia United, in collaboration with clinicians, business intelligence colleagues and members of the Dementia United Dementia Carers Expert Reference Group, has developed a dementia data dashboard for Greater Manchester.  The dashboard shows dementia diagnoses rates across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, as well as documenting lived experience, quality of care and quality of life…