TV celebrity Alan Titchmarsh gave residents of a Hampshire care home a lovely surprise when he called in on them in his capacity as Deputy Lieutenant of the County. Titchmarsh, gardening expert and novelist, also took the opportunity of his visit to the Lawn, in Alton, to congratulate staff for their hard work during the pandemic. He is pictured with resident Kathie Baines, who said: “I absolutely love gardening and always watched his TV programmes.”
Practical suggestions on improving the design of environments in which people with dementia live are central to two new books by a husband-and-wife team. Award-winning landscape architect Annie Pollock is author of A Breath of Fresh Air: The importance of air quality in aged care design, while Ricky Pollock has written Acoustics in Aged Care….
The National Day of Arts in Care Homes, an annual event organised by the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), takes place on Saturday 24 September celebrating arts and creativity in care settings. Care providers and local arts organisations are expected to arrange events showcasing creative work to support health and wellbeing. Among initiatives on the…
Worcester University researcher Rosemary Davies, who is a qualified counsellor, is looking for research participants with mild to moderate dementia to assist her with her project at the Association for Dementia Studies. She hopes volunteers will contribute to the aims of her research, which are to improve counselling for those with a recent diagnosis by…
The Bob & Diane Fund is excited to announce photographer Cheryle St. Onge as the 2021 grantee for her photography project, Calling the Birds Home. This yearly photography grant is to support visual storytelling about Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The NHS Talking Therapies Positive Practice Guide for Older People (2024) has been published by the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP), Age UK, the Mental Health Foundation and NHS Talking Therapies services. The guide is intended to be a resource for therapists who work with older people, and aims to address the…
New guidance has been published to help care homes support people with learning disabilities who have a diagnosis of dementia. The guidance, titled “My new home: Supporting people with an intellectual/learning disability and advanced dementia moving into a care home,” has been developed in a partnership between Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Alzheimer Scotland, University of Stirling…