January/February 2022

  • To play or not to play – that is the question

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] John Killick is a writer and poet. [/su_box]   Are humour and play a valid part of dementia care or is it too serious to be joked about? John Killick, in the first of a series of articles considering what has changed in dementia care over the past 30 years, describes how he revised his views on the value…...

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  • Care homes during Covid: staff wellbeing and the role of a specialist intervention team

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Sophie Randall is assistant psychologist in the Specialist Dementia Intervention Team, Dr Sian Clark is principal clinical psychologist/clinical lead in the Specialist Dementia Intervention Team, and Dr Fiona Senior is joint lead consultant clinical psychologist for the Older Persons Mental Health Team, all at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.   [/su_box] What was the…...

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  • There’s an app for that…

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Catherine James undertook the digital personal assistant study for the Youth Industrial Strategy Competition Finals. It was voted one of the top ten creative science projects by the British Science Association.  [/su_box] Digital technology could be embraced more widely by people in the early stages of dementia, says Catherine James, explaining her…...

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  • Blogs, resources and events

    Blogs I’m watching  As Omicron heaps more pressure on the NHS, Wendy Mitchell found herself with an unenviable inside view even before the variant began to spread.  She was out for an early morning walk to see the sunrise – there are some lovely photos in her blogpost – when “suddenly my feet went from under me…...

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  • Creative homes: an arts project in extra care housing

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Neil McCarthy is assistant director of care and support at Octavia.  [/su_box]   Creative arts can add significantly to quality of life among extra care housing residents, improving mood, self-esteem and communication.  Neil McCarthy describes a project run by not-for-profit housing provider Octavia.  A paintbrush moves across a piece of drawing paper and slowly…...

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  • The Alzheimer’s Show 2022, The Business Design Centre, Islington London

    PAID CONTENT: The UK’s leading event for dementia runs on on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th March 2022 at The Business Design Centre, London. The two-day conference and exhibition showcases the latest information, advice, products and services for healthcare professionals and the public helping those with Alzheimer’s and dementia.  New for 2022, the Virtual Dementia Tour will be delivering their complete training session involving an 8-minute simulation followed by a 75…...

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  • Perspectives

    Time for the promised Moonshot to get off the launchpad   By Mark Ivory, Editor of the Journal of Dementia Care  Two contrasting medicinal tales can be told about 2021, one of success and one of failure.  Covid-19 vaccines have been a great success by any yardstick, but the story of the search for a dementia treatment has been less happy as the latest twist…...

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  • JDC Asks  

    “What is your greatest wish for dementia care in the coming year?”  Patrick Atkinson, director of Church Farm Care:  My greatest wish is not just for dementia care, but for the whole sector. I want to see the industry start to integrate care and think about what it should look like in the future.   We have…...

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  • Dementia awareness and good practice

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Elaine Farrer is operations director at Colten Care.  [/su_box] Southern England care home provider Colten Care has invested in practice development, dementia care awareness, and the appointment of an Admiral Nurse.  Elaine Farrer explains the positive difference this has made, especially during the pandemic.  Looking back, we always knew we were a good fit…...

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  • Dementia Diaries

    In Dementia Diaries, people living with dementia from groups in the DEEP network use a voicemail service to record their thoughts and experiences… wherever and whenever they feel like doing so.    But, at the end of the summer, the technology behind Dementia Diaries finally gave up the ghost. This has meant that we are currently rebuilding the website, and have been…...

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