Remembrance Sunday
Veterans living at Royal Star & Garter’s care homes attended the Cenotaph service in London on 12 November. World War Two veteran Ken, who lives at Royal Star & Garter in High Wycombe, is pictured with a wreath at the Cenotaph.
Care England has collaborated with Oak House Kitchen to produce a white paper on dysphagia. The paper looks at best practice for supporting people with dysphagia, a condition that is estimated to affect four million people and often develops as a person lives with dementia. You can read the white paper here: https://www.careengland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Care-England-x-OHK-White-Paper-_-Nov24_-digital.pdf
Government Social Research and the Welsh Government has published, ‘Evaluation of the Dementia Action Plan 2018 to 2022: main findings and recommendations for future strategies’. This is the final report in the evaluation process (that began in 2019), and provides an overview of all of the evaluation findings. The report also contains a series of…
Hiker Harriet Thomas is walking 900 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats for Dementia Adventure under the banner of ‘The D Tour’. Harriet has been inspired to do The D Tour following her mum’s nine years with dementia. The D Tour website says: “It’s more than just a walk—it’s also a podcast, a fundraiser,…
The Care Workers’ Charity has launched its Mental Wellbeing Survey. The survey is designed to identify a range of issues faced by care workers. The results will be used by The Care Workers’ Charity to influence policy decisions. The survey will take around 10-20 minutes to fill in and there is prize draw for everyone…
Church leaders have called for a National Care Covenant in a landmark report produced by the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care. The commission set up by the Church of England began taking evidence in summer 2021 and urges the government to radically rethink the social care system. A “reimagined” care system based on a National…
Advice on “How to support somebody living with dementia in hot weather” has been produced online by Alzheimer’s Society. It focuses mainly on how to prevent dehydration by making drinks more accessible and by leaving prompts and reminders, among other things, but also gives tips to help people with dementia stay cool when it’s hot. …