By Toby Williamson, editor of the Journal of Dementia Care Williamson, T., (2026) Towards better dementia care; awards for dementia care. Journal of Dementia Care, 34(2) p.5. This issue of the Journal has a strong emphasis on different aspects of dementia care practice, including quality improvement projects in care homes, mindfulness, reading interventions, preventing hospital…...
Dr Nori Graham BM, Bch, FRCPsych, DUniv has just retired from Dementia Community’s Advisory Group. Nori was a founding member of the Journal of Dementia Care’s Advisory Board in 1993 when the journal was launched, so she has been guiding, initiating, cajoling, encouraging us for 33 years! This is a wonderful record which is unlikely…...
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Maria Parsons describes some of the highlights of the annual conference of the National Activity Providers Association, held in Liverpool in January 2026. Maria Pasiecznik Parsons is the Development Lead for Dementia Community. Raising the curtain on a Year of Culture’, Journal of Dementia Care, 34(2) p.14. Founded in 1997 to improve the quality of…...
A good example of researchers engaging meaningfully with dementia services and community organisations to make research more inclusive is described by Geeti Kabra. Geeti Kabra is a research assistant working at King’s College London on the Dementia Community Research Network (DCRN). Her background is in psychology, and her particular interest lies in inclusive dementia research…....
Gemma Jolly and Eve Wilson from The Reading Agency describe the benefits of a project that enabled people with dementia living in a care home, staff, and family carers to access the Reading Well for dementia book collection. Jolly, G. and Wilson, E. (2026) ‘How Reading Well Books are supporting dementia care in a…...
Andrew Waterhouse and Dr Stephen Orleans-Foli report on how a simplified course in mindfulness, delivered by occupational therapists, has helped people with mild to moderate dementia. Andrew Waterhouse is a Specialist Occupational Therapist with a Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Service in west London. Dr Stephen Orleans-Foli is a Consultant Psychiatrist and research lead in cognitive…...
The National Year of Reading 2026 would love to hear about any experiences, projects and approaches related to reading and people living with dementia happening in 2026, and the impact they have. Benson, L., (2026) The National Year of Reading 2026. Journal of Dementia Care, 34(2) p.27 This national initiative aims to reignite a culture…...
Avoiding hospital admissions wherever possible for people with dementia is a key objective for both policy and practice. In this article Dr Mary Tilki and Charlotte Curran explore how this can be achieved, particularly from a family carer, practitioner, and community perspective. Tilki, M. and Curran, C. (2026) ‘Avoiding hospital admission for people with dementia…...
Katy Jenks, David Marshall and Graham Stokes describe a quality improvement project that focuses on empowering staff to find the ‘why’ for behavioural expressions of need among people with dementia living in care homes, and to reduce inappropriate psychoactive medication use. Jenks, K., Marshall, D. and Stokes, G. (2026) ‘Finding the Why: sustaining a quality…...