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.
Similar Posts
Alzheimer’s Society share how stigma is affecting people living with dementia
Alzheimer’s Society has published some first-hand accounts that detail how people living with dementia have been impacted by stigma and mistreated as a result. One person says of traveling on public transport: “I’ve experienced stigma while out in public, most recently on a train. I was travelling to London with a friend, and I suggested…
Dementia Trials Accelerator aims to increase research participants
A new Dementia Trials Accelerator (DTA) has been launched to increase the number of people in the UK participating in late-stage clinical trials who are at risk of, or diagnosed with, early-stage dementia. It is hoped the DTA, which is backed by £20m of government funding, will increase the number of dementia trial participants to…
New dementia design film aimed at people living at home
The University of Stirling’s Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) have launched a new film to share low-cost dementia design principles that can enable people with dementia to maintain their independence and live at home for longer. The short film is intended to provide accessible information for people with dementia, their families and carers and can…
Digital care
A digital care programme rolled out across the county by Kent Council has won national recognition in the HTN HealthTech Awards. The project, called Kara, involved successfully equipping 1,700 vulnerable, digitally disadvantaged adults with video “carephones” to overcome social isolation during Covid. Comprising a one-touch secure tablet device, it provided video-calling to the individual’s support…
Blood tests to detect dementia to be offered by UK Memory Clinics
A five-year project to study blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia has been announced, funded by the Blood Biomarker Challenge (Find out more about this here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/blood-biomarker-challenge-for-dementia-diagnosis). Led by University College London (the ADAPT study) and the University of Oxford (the READ-OUT study), a range of blood tests will be conducted…
BGS launches ‘Choose Geriatrics’
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has launched a new campaign, ‘Choose Geriatrics’ to encourage more clinicians to consider specialising in older people’s health. The campaign will showcase the variety of roles available in older people’s healthcare and share stories from BGS members. It will also seek to highlight the rewards associated with a career in…