March/April 2023

Jolley D (2023) A combined Major Conditions Strategy – right and wrong. Journal of Dementia Care 31(2) 13 [su_box title=”Author details” box_color=”#bbe4fa” title_color=”#000000″] David Jolley is a retired consultant psycho-geriatrician and was a professor of old age psychiatry.  He is now chair of Christians on Ageing. [/su_box] Instead of its promised 10-year plan for dementia…...

To use the media’s favourite term, there was a dementia “U-turn” by The Department for Health and Social Care at the start of the year. Last May we were promised a 10-year plan to tackle dementia in England by the then health secretary Sajid Javid, but in January a new health secretary stood up in…...

How far should we go as a society to reduce dementia risk?  For example, should we reform contact sports like football and rugby, associated with higher dementia risk for professional sportspeople? Or should we beware the nanny state? Jill Manthorpe, director of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health & Social Care Workforce  Over the past…...