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…
In the UK, dementia rates among black people are 22% higher than for white people, demonstrating the need for more targeted interventions to reduce dementia risks and improve treatment outcomes for ethnic minority communities. That is the verdict of UCL researchers who carried out the study, which looked at health records of more than 660,000…
A new diary titled Where Are You? describes the innermost feelings of a carer who supported her husband with Parkinson’s and subsequently dementia. Author Katie Herdman shares diary entries from the last months of her husband Jim’s life (he died in August 2020), taking readers through the storm of conflicting emotions that she experienced. Publishers…
A majority of people with dementia reside in the community, yet the support needed for social inclusion and a life well lived is not widely available, says a report from the Dementia Change Action Network (DCAN). DCAN, founded in 2020 as a collaborative network focused on personalised care, made its name during the pandemic, sharing…
A sharp rise in the proportion of dementia care homes rated “inadequate” or “requires improvement” has been recorded by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), according to an exclusive story in the Guardian. It shows more than 50% of care homes offering dementia care in England and subject to inspection were rated in these categories in…
Tony Jameson-Allen and Chris Wilkins, co-founders of the dementia reminiscence charity Sporting Memories, have been awarded MBEs in the New Year Honours. They started the charity in 2011 and there are now more than 100 Sporting Memories clubs supporting older people across England, Scotland and Wales. Wilkins, CEO of Sporting Memories, said the clubs used…
