The Sam Beckman Choir, a dementia choir in North London, has written, composed and professionally recorded an original song that they’ve released as a single entitled ‘A new beginning’. The choir worked with music and healthcare practitioner Edmund Jeffrey for a year to create their song during their weekly music sessions. All of the choir…
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has launched ‘Centring Care Workers: A Guide’. The guide, which was co-produced with the CWC Care Worker Advisory Board, is intended to help organisations and leaders to engage meaningfully with care workers by providing practical approaches to involving care workers in decision-making, service design and policy development. Karolina Gerlich, CEO…
Baroness Casey, who chairs the Casey Commission into Adult Social Care in England (which we have reported on here https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/?s=Casey+Commission), has given a speech to the Nuffield Trust Summit 2026 where she called on the government to take urgent action to reform dementia care. The speech, which set out Baroness Casey’s early assessment of the…
Playlist for Life has released two new animated films to support people living with dementia, their families and carers create and use personal playlists. The first animation is voiced by Doctor Who star David Tennant and explains how to make a playlist. The second animation is voiced by former BBC local radio journalist Willy Gilder,…
Dementia UK has launched a film with two young people talking about their experiences of being young carers. The film features Izzy and Cici, who talk openly and honestly about their experiences of being young carers as a result of their dads’ living with young onset dementia. You can watch the film here: https://youtu.be/Hpz_Cd2edy8?si=4acaGGsSusGbpqzP Alongside…
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has published a new series of key messages on dementia and brain health. The messages have been developed to provide BGS members and multidisciplinary colleagues with information that can help to support older people’s healthcare. Read the BGS dementia and brain health key messages here: https://www.bgs.org.uk/bgs-key-messages-dementia-and-brain-health
BBC Morning Live has run an item on their programme entitled: ‘Missing with dementia’. The item was inspired by research University College London (UCL) are doing, building on work from the University of East Anglia, that relates to people with dementia going missing. BBC Morning Live quoted a statistic that 70% of people with dementia…