Participants wanted for survey exploring stigma towards people with dementia living in extra care housing

An East Anglian study will look at whether NHS mental health Recovery Colleges can help support people living with dementia.  There are already 85 Recovery Colleges across the country for people who use mental health services, but this will be the first opportunity to see whether they have a role in dementia care specifically. The…

New liberty protection safeguards (LPS) are expected to replace the deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) shortly and a half-day masterclass will look at the law as it stands and cover the plans for reform.  It will look at the situation in residential care, the community and in hospital settings.  Among the topics to be covered…

The King’s Fund has launched ‘Do With’, a movement of people and organisations calling for a radical shift in the public sector from ‘doing to’ to ‘doing with’.   The first meeting of this new movement is on 26 March 2025, and The King’s Fund say of this event and their plans for ‘Do With’:  “We…

Alzheimer’s Society has updated its estimate of the number of people in the UK with dementia to 900,000 aged over 65.  It revises the previous figure of 850,000, which dates back to 2014, and takes into account “excess deaths” of people with dementia during the pandemic.  The new figure of 900,000 is based on modelling…

A boost for Alzheimer’s Research UK’s (ARUK) fundraising efforts has come with the recruitment of Iceland Foods managing director Richard Walker as an ambassador. Walker, whose own mother was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s in 2011 and died last year, said it was a “privilege to do this in memory of her”.  Through its charitable…

Alzheimer’s Research UK, The Alzheimer’s Society, Dementia UK, Alzheimer Scotland and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have joined together to create a policy briefing on implementing a national system for collecting data on newly licenced dementia drugs.  The charities have written to Dr Jeremy Isaacs, the National Clinical Director for Dementia & Older People’s Mental…