January/February 2022

  • It’s not too late to act, but time is running out

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Paola Barbarino is CEO of Alzheimer’s Disease International.       [/su_box] Most governments worldwide are poorly prepared for the impending dementia care crisis and time is running out.  But Paola Barbarino argues that it is not too late to act on the expected tsunami of demand.     Every year on 21 September – World Alzheimer’s Day – Alzheimer’s Disease…...

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  • Research

    [su_box title=”Evidence for Practice/Research news” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] This section aims to keep readers up to date with research in dementia care and the current best evidence to support practice. We aim to provide a channel of two-way communication between researchers and practitioners, so that research findings  influence practice and practitioners’ concerns are fed into the…...

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  • Palliative care: time for a change of focus

    Professor Nathan Davies, University College London  As people live longer, more are being diagnosed with dementia, leading to what is referred to by Paola Barbarino in this issue of JDC as a “tsunami of demand”. We know that it is now the leading cause of death in the UK and that palliative care needs are expected to increase 25% by 2040, with the biggest increase expected among those living with dementia.   More often than not, the condition…...

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  • Bringing the inside out

    [su_box title=”Author Details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Susanna Howard is founder and artistic director of Living Words; Reinhard Guss is consultant clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist, Sussex Partnership NHS Trust, and Living Words trustee. Elements have been taken from Susan Allen’s Culture Cubed evaluation report.  [/su_box] Artists from the charity Living Words work with care home residents to write down their sounds and words.  When the pandemic struck, as…...

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  • Introducing CHARM: the Care Home Action Researcher-in-residence Model

    [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] Isabelle Latham is senior lecturer and Faith Frost is research associate, both at the Association for Dementia Studies (ADS), April Dobson is head of dementia care and well-being at Hallmark Care Homes, Suzanne Mumford is head of nursing, care and dementia at Care UK, and Tracey Williamson is an honorary professor at the University of Worcester and consultant nurse for dementia at Betsi Cadwladr University Health Board. [/su_box] Carrying out research in care homes can be challenging because it fails to consider resources within those homes…...

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