Journaling while living with dementia features on BBC Morning Live

The mental health challenges facing over 50’s are the focus of Age UK’s newly released ‘I just feel that no one cares’ report.   Encompassing results from Age UK’s polling and survey work, the report focuses on the following topics:  ‘I just feel that no one cares’ highlights how mental health challenges for specific sub-groups such…

New play ‘A Tupperware of Ashes’ has come to the National Theatre, London, with the central character, Queenie, being diagnosed with dementia at 68 years old.  The promotion for the plays says:  “An ambitious Michelin-Star chef, Queenie is used to having the last word. But when her children notice gaps in her memory and her…

People affected by dementia are joining forces across the globe in a campaign for change called “Let’s Reimagine”, launched by the pressure group Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice. It aims to challenge the “biomedical and institutional approaches” to dementia policy and practice, which the international coalition says lead to fear, stigma and hopelessness….

Dementia NI has launched a new documentary to share the voices of people living with dementia in Northern Ireland.  ‘Hear our Voice’ is a co-production between Southern and South Eastern Health and Social Care Trusts and Dementia NI who teamed up with people living with dementia.   The documentary is described as ‘a window into the…

The Scottish Dementia Alumni, a group of campaigning friends in Scotland who each have a diagnosis of dementia, have published their latest booklet ‘Dementia and End of Life Choices’.  The Scottish Dementia Alumni says of their new publication:  “This booklet was an emotional creation, as we all needed to confront challenging concepts and our own…

A book documenting the life of human rights campaigner Professor Peter Mittler CBE has been published by the My Voice project, run by Manchester Jewish social care charity The Fed. Professor Mittler, who has dementia and has been active in the field, left Nazi-occupied Austria as an eight-year-old and came to England on the Kindertransport….