Government consultation on workplace rights for unpaid carers

The Young Dementia Network has made its June webinar about a young onset dementia nurse-led service available on catch-up. The webinar is presented by Jenny Kerti, community psychiatric nurse manager, alongside colleagues from the Younger Persons with Dementia Team in Northamptonshire.  It reveals how the service offers continuity of support from GP referral for a…

A film ‘Debunking dementia: See the person, not the diagnosis’ has been shared by BBC Ideas with the aim of challenging ‘Five myths about dementia’.  Created by Living Words and made in partnership with The Open University, the film features people living with dementia, family carers and professionals.   You can watch the film here: https://youtu.be/JPAKEPj5ebI?si=xX3FwsbQnf1wzoDN 

Last year Dementia UK launched a competition inviting children to submit artwork that described their experiences of dementia https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/childrens-dementia-art-competition.  Some of the entries are now on display in a pop-up exhibition in London’s Paternoster Square, City of London, EC4M 7DX.  The exhibition runs from Monday 11 March to Sunday 17 March 2024, and is being staffed during working…

A study looking at the health of more than 413,000 people taking part in the UK Biobank project has reiterated the link between air pollution, brain ill-health and dementia.  Participants were between 40 and 69 years old and free of dementia, cancer or stroke at the start of the study. Their health was tracked, focusing…

University College London (UCL)’s Insight46 study has linked regular physical activity throughout life to changes in the brain which could reduce the risk of developing dementia.  Insight46, funded by Alzheimer’s Research UK and the Medical Research Council (MRC), began in 2015 and analyses health data collected from a unique group of volunteers from England, Scotland…

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.