A free resource titled “Be inspired – The role of music in dementia care” has been produced by the charity Music as Therapy International. It is designed to explore the role music can play in care and includes ideas, questions and inspiration for choosing the right music. The resource is part of a new online training course, Music Helps, which the charity aims to launch later this year.
A new blog on Alzheimer’s Society’s website is an apt reminder of an important symbol of remembrance – the blue flower badges that the charity promotes as representing the dementia cause. The forget-me-not pin badges are worn by people in support of the charity or to raise awareness, often because a loved one has dementia….
UCL and Tower Hamlets memory clinic psychiatrist Dr Nick Bass will lead Young Dementia Network’s November webinar. He and Jana Mikova, clinical nurse specialist in genomic medicine, will explain the North Thames Genomic Medicine Service Alliance transformation project to embed genomic investigation in mental health service-provided memory clinics. They will go on to discuss implications…
Rachel Niblock, former DEEP co-ordinator, has begun a new online Shared Reading group for people with dementia. Participants should have a love of books and poetry. This is not an academic or book club type experience, but instead is about being in the moment with the words of a book or poem. There isn’t any…
NHS England has partnered with libraries to provide support to access online health services, including the NHS app. Working with the National Health Literacy Partnership, NHS England has supplied public and NHS libraries with toolkits and information resources to enable them to support anyone visiting a participating library with queries about online health services. Professor…
The findings of a research study (published in October 2023) entitled ‘Hard to Reach and Hidden: Improving the Identification of Young Dementia Carers’ has been represented in an animation about the visibility and needs of young dementia carers. The ‘What do young dementia carers need?’ animation details a number of help and support needs including: …
Air pollution is linked to higher use of mental health services by people with dementia, research published by BMJ Mental Health suggests. It says that cutting levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter should be a priority in urban areas if demand on overstretched psychiatric services is to be reduced. Researchers looked back at…