May/June 2026

Anqa Tirmazee-Kaleem and Hilary Woodhead, colleagues from the National Activity Provider Association (NAPA), provide evidence of how music can be integrated into everyday activities for people with dementia living in care homes. Anqa Tirmazee-Kaleem works as the Research and Impact Officer at the National Activity Providers Association (NAPA), undertaking both external and internal research and…...

Bethany Chitty reviews the research literature concerning mealtimes for people with dementia in hospital and residential care settings and identifies a number of benefits that can be achieved through making simple modifications. Bethany Chitty is a Specialist Occupational Therapist currently working in an adult mental health team for Central and North West London NHS Trust…....

By Toby Williamson In recent years several initiatives have attempted to replicate aspects of the lived experience of dementia for people who do not have the condition, for education, training and public education purposes. It’s fraught with difficulty, particularly in relation to the more severe cognitive aspects of dementia, because it’s difficult to get accounts of these from people with dementia that can be used to develop an experiential model.  As…...