Admiral Nurses share tips on “Supporting children and adolescents when a parent has young onset dementia” in new advice from Dementia UK. Topics covered include juggling parenting and dementia, supporting your child, recognising themselves as young carers, and changing family dynamics. It is available at www.dementiauk.org.
A new training programme designed to develop leadership skills among people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds working in social care has been launched by Skills for Care. The Forefront Programme is a new suite of digital modules which is intended to build participants’ confidence in improving equality, diversity and inclusion in their organisation. Find out more…
Older people with dementia are missing out on vital talking therapies that could significantly improve their lives, according to the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Taking the opportunity of World Alzheimer’s Day (21 September) to highlight the problem, BACP warned that depression was often confused with dementia and that the depression was wrongly…
Many GPs believe that assistive technologies could bring substantial benefits to their patients with dementia, particularly devices like an intuitive app to help them navigate their community, gadgets reminding them to take medications, and smart glasses to tell them who they are looking at. According to an Alzheimer’s Society survey, 76% of GPs worry that…
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…
Guernsey Alzheimer’s Association has begun to run drop-in clinics to support the growing ageing population on the island. The new sessions are running on the last Friday of every month at The Centre in St Sampson’s from 10:00-11:00. The clinics are intended to answer questions people may have about living with dementia and provide advice…
On the buses: Betty Bunce, who lives at the Bernard Sunley care home in Woking, got a nice surprise when she celebrated her 91st birthday recently. Anna Olejnik, staff member at the Friends of the Elderly home, presented Betty with the cake. Betty reminisced about life after the second world war: “Working as a clippie…