A study about SAFER-Dem, a tool to help people with dementia to have safer and smoother transitions from mental health hospitals to their communities, has been published by BMJ Open. SAFER-Dem, an NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) supported, co-produced project led by researchers at The University of Manchester, has been shown to…
A study published in Neurology has linked Type 1 diabetes and dementia. Researchers analysed 283,772 people with an average age of 64 and followed them for over 2 years. Of these people, 5,442 had type 1 diabetes and 51,511 had type 2 diabetes. They found that people with type 1 diabetes were nearly three times…
A study has been published by the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) exploring the use of restrictive practices in the everyday care of people living with dementia in English hospitals. Researchers from the University of West London analysed 225 days of ethnographic observation across nine NHS wards in England alongside more than…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a research report entitled ‘Good Practice in Care for Those Living with a Dementia: Literature Review’. The report was created by IFF Research, who worked in partnership with Leeds Beckett University to review examples of good practice that have been published by UK and worldwide universities and organisations…
Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has renewed their commitment to the Drug Discovery Alliance (DDA) for another five years and pledged a £45million investment in the DDA. ARUK originally launched the Drug Discovery Alliance in 2015 to unite the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and University College London (UCL) and enable them to turn more early‑stage scientific…
Join Dementia Research, the service that connects volunteers to dementia research opportunities, has turned 11 years old. Delivered by the NIHR in partnership with Alzheimer Scotland, Alzheimer’s Research UK and Alzheimer’s Society, Join Dementia Research – which began in 2015 – has helped 110,000 volunteers take part in dementia research and supported researchers to recruit…
A study published in Neurology has shown a link between engaging in cognitively enriching activities – such as reading, writing and learning languages – and slower cognitive decline, including an association with a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers examined cognitive enrichment – including access to atlases and newspapers in childhood and having library…