The Long Goodbye – Alzheimer’s Society film 

“We can diagnose and start to manage dementia earlier than we do currently,” the Chief Medical Officer’s Report on Health in an Ageing Society has admitted. Professor Chris Whitty’s annual report touches on dementia in several places, including in a chapter on secondary prevention and early diagnosis in older age. “An early diagnosis and access…

 TIDE (Together in Dementia Everyday) has been awarded a grant by the Dementia Trust to begin some peer support groups for carers of people with young onset dementia (YOD) in conjunction with the Alzheimer’s Society.  The groups will be in the Merseyside area, initially beginning in Liverpool and Sefton.  If you are supporting someone under…

Campaigning charity Parkinson’s UK has called for better training for health professionals on Parkinson’s related dementia and produced a new toolkit to help them. The toolkit gives an overview of Parkinson’s dementia, including risk factors, symptoms and assessments, while also suggesting treatment strategies.  It is aimed at health and care professionals who support people with…

Carers UK have created a new guide – ‘Carers Active’ – to support professionals to make a positive difference for unpaid carers by offering tailored activities that encourage them to get active.    The guide builds on responses from nearly 150 professionals and organisations who are seeing the benefits of improved health and wellbeing outcomes for…

The European Reminiscence Network has announced a new 2-day training course and 4-month apprenticeship scheme in reminiscence arts in dementia care – in partnership with the University of Greenwich.   This opportunity will be of interest to arts practitioners, community arts workers, oral historians, occupational and arts therapists, group workers, reminiscence practitioners, and staff from health…

Alzheimer’s Society has updated its estimate of the number of people in the UK with dementia to 900,000 aged over 65.  It revises the previous figure of 850,000, which dates back to 2014, and takes into account “excess deaths” of people with dementia during the pandemic.  The new figure of 900,000 is based on modelling…