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Dreams come true: When resident Nalini Bhagwat (left) asked staff at St Catherine’s View dementia care home in Winchester whether they could turn her New Year wish into reality, that’s exactly what they did.  Nalini wanted to revisit some of her old Bollywood-inspired dance moves, so companionship team Laura Sheldrake took to social media and…

Today is Alzheimer’s Prevention Day, an awareness-raising initiative from world-leading brain health scientists to increase understanding of scientifically proven ways to reduce a person’s chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease.  Each of the experts involved in this initiative has recorded a 3-minute film about an action they’d recommend to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s. There is…

Retired university professor Rex Last is offering a free download of his book “The informal Dementia Carer – who cares?” which is described as a “hard-hitting defence” of the informal carer. Professor Last’s wife, who died in July, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s which developed into dementia.  He says the book is a plea from a…

Fairy tale: Panto season was extended at a Dorset dementia care home as residents and staff staged their own version of Beauty and the Beast.  Weeks of rehearsals, making props and sourcing costumes culminated in the performance at Colten Care’s Fernhill home in Longham. Resident Patrick Ryan is pictured (right) with fellow cast members, who…

Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has reiterated its call for a Dementia Medicines Taskforce as part of the government’s forthcoming 10-year dementia strategy.  ARUK says the taskforce would act as a “necessary catalyst” for the development of dementia treatments, especially given historic under-investment in dementia research and the government’s failure so far to honour its “dementia…

A book documenting the life of human rights campaigner Professor Peter Mittler CBE has been published by the My Voice project, run by Manchester Jewish social care charity The Fed. Professor Mittler, who has dementia and has been active in the field, left Nazi-occupied Austria as an eight-year-old and came to England on the Kindertransport….