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A new phase of its “I live with dementia” campaign has been triggered by Dementia UK, the Admiral Nurse charity. The campaign helps families affected by dementia and raises awareness of the support Admiral Nurses can provide. January is one of the busiest months for the Dementia UK helpline after relatives have come together over…

Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), in partnership with Dementia Change Action Network (DCAN), has launched a report entitled ‘I just want to be able to dance’.  The report, written by Neil Crowther and Liz Leach, champions a renewed focus on wellbeing for people with dementia, highlighting connection, community, and personalised care and support as key…

The government has admitted plans to cut its promised investment in the social care workforce by half, down to £250 million from the £500 million pledged when the social care white paper was published in 2021.  Widely condemned by social care leaders, the move comes in spite of the 165,000 staff vacancies across the sector. …

Care home provider KYN have worked with Innovations in Dementia to produce new guidelines on dementia language.  Emma Hewat, Head of Dementia at KYN said: “We wanted to draw upon people’s lived experiences of dementia to create a new set of guidelines that was inclusive of their views, experiences and expectations of how they are…

Retired university professor Rex Last is offering a free download of his book “The informal Dementia Carer – who cares?” which is described as a “hard-hitting defence” of the informal carer. Professor Last’s wife, who died in July, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s which developed into dementia.  He says the book is a plea from a…

September is World Alzheimer’s Month and the campaign theme this year will be “Never too early, never too late,” underscoring the importance of identifying risk factors and reducing risk in order to delay or prevent the onset of dementia.  Organisers Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) said, with the global numbers of people with dementia expected to…