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Practical suggestions on improving the design of environments in which people with dementia live are central to two new books by a husband-and-wife team.  Award-winning landscape architect Annie Pollock is author of A Breath of Fresh Air: The importance of air quality in aged care design, while Ricky Pollock has written Acoustics in Aged Care….

The NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) School for Social Care Research (SSCR) has secured fourth phase funding.  The new funding, up to £31million over 5 years, will enable the NIHR SSCR to continue working to improve adult social care practice by support the School’s core vision to provide better evidence for what…

“Sharing Joy”, a theatre show for people living with life-shortening conditions like dementia, is touring again in care homes, day services, hospices and hospitals in June and July. Music, dance, masks, nostalgia and laughter are all part of the show run by Vamos Theatre, and everyone is encouraged to take part and enjoy themselves.  Among…

Tackling the increasing pressure of dementia on society must be made a political priority in the next general election campaign, Alzheimer’s Research UK has said.  Calling for manifesto pledges to tackle “completely unacceptably diagnosis rates,” the charity says that one in three people never receive a diagnosis and could be unable to access life-changing treatments…

A study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that a new dementia risk score “calculator” could identify people most at risk of developing dementia in the next 14 years.  Based on two long-term studies, the risk score draws on a list of 11 predictive factors: age, education, history of diabetes, history of or current…

The Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit at KCL, and Primary Care and Population Health at UCL, have joined forces to create a network and webinar series to address the poorer health and wellbeing in later life that the LGBTQ+ community experience.  People from the LGBTQ+ community face inequalities throughout the life course, which…