Issue: March/April 2024

People. People. People.

By Dr Richard Hawkins, Editor-in-chief, Journal of Dementia Care People are the rock upon which all organisations are built. The right people will enable almost every organisation, however badly structured, to succeed whereas however well structured an organisation is, without the right people it will struggle. But who are the right people?  The point which...

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Dementia Diaries

At the time of writing, it has been just over a week since we learned the sad news of Wendy Mitchell’s death. An award-winning writer of books, blogs, a consummate adventurer in all senses, Wendy was a beacon for an enormous number of people.  So this edition of the Dementia Diaries column is dedicated to...

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Research March April 2024

Detecting dementia: comparison of tools Involving 706 participants with mild cognitive impairment or probable mild Alzheimer’s disease, this study identified that the Digital Clock and Recall method (DCR™) was superior on average to the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in classifying mild cognitive impairment and early dementia. DCR administration was also significantly faster (completed in less...

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