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Researchers on the ENACT-DEM project (Centring the lived experience of dementia within policy, practice and community development) are looking for people living with dementia and unpaid carers to participate in their research.  ENACT-DEM is an ESRC-funded international research project led by a team at the University of Stirling in collaboration with colleagues in London, Canada…

The announcement that actress Pauline Quirke has stepped back from acting following her dementia diagnosis aged 61 (diagnosis in 2021) has received extensive media coverage and prompted a renewed focus on young onset dementia.  Pauline and her husband, Steve, have pledged future support for Alzheimer’s Research UK. You can read a statement on the ARUK…

Dementia Carers Count (DCC) are looking for new members for their Carers’ Advisory Panel.  Being a member of the DCC Advisory Panel involves helping Dementia Carers Count shape what they campaign about and how they campaign.  If you are, or have been, a carer or know someone who is you can find out more by…

Charlotte Stoner, a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, is looking for feedback from people living with dementia about an application she is co-writing for a research project creating a new questionnaire about wellbeing for people with dementia. It’s hoped that the questionnaire will become a new measure that’s used in research…

The journal Brain has published two papers linking traumatic brain injury to dementia.  Researchers from Imperial College London used data from retired professional rugby players and found changes in their brains and raised levels of proteins in their blood that could increase the risk of developing dementia in later life.  You can read the papers…

Kate White, Jude Sweeting and Barbara Stephens, on behalf of the Board of Dementia Community, met with Alex Hyde Smith (Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Director) from the Alzheimer’s Society on 8th November 2024 to open a dialogue with the Society about the future of our working relationship. We discussed the ‘Long Goodbye’, other recent…