Findings from the 2023 British Social Attitudes survey have been published by the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund. The survey shows that only 24% of the public are satisfied with the NHS and only 13% are satisfied with social care. These are the lowest levels of satisfaction recorded since the survey began in 1983.
Find out more here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/reports/public-satisfaction-nhs-social-care-2023
The founder of one of the leading care home providers providing dementia care, Hallmark Care Homes, has received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to social care and philanthropy. Avnish Goyal founded Hallmark Care Homes 25 years ago. Among his many achievements and contributions Avnish has been Chair of Care England,…
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 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….
Dementia Friendly East Belfast’s work has been featured on the BBC News, including showcasing art done by people with dementia that’s gone on display in the Holywood Arches library under the exhibition title: ‘Presence in the Past’. You can view the news report, that includes interviews with some of the members of the art group,…
Falls are three times more common among care home residents than people of similar age living in the community, but new research published by the British Medical Journal has shown a way to achieve significant improvements. Pip Logan and colleagues (BMJ 7 December) developed and tested the Guide to Action Care Home (GtACH) programme, in…
Poor heart health is a better predictor of dementia risk for individuals than their genetic profile, researchers led by Oxford and Exeter Universities have discovered. Someone with multiple health conditions affecting the heart was three times more likely to develop dementia than someone with a high genetic risk, they found. The study, published by the…