The Long Goodbye – Alzheimer’s Society film 

Dawn Astle, founder of The Jeff Astle Foundation, has been honoured with an MBE for her services to footballers with dementia.   Dawn is the daughter of footballer Jeff Astle and founded The Jeff Astle Foundation after her father died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition he developed from repeated, low level brain trauma believed…

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Access to Disability Equipment is looking for participants for a short survey about barriers to accessing community care disability equipment.  The survey is open to individuals, families, carers, and professionals, including anyone with personal or professional experience of dementia who has found accessing disability equipment difficult. The findings will…

Carers UK has secured three years of funding from Sport England to relaunch their ‘Carers Active’ project.  When this project was funded previously, a Carers Active Hub was created with resources including exercise videos and activity ideas. You can find some of these resources here: https://www.carersuk.org/news-and-campaigns/our-campaigns/carers-active/  The re-launched project will see Carers UK work with…

New guidance has been published by Trend Diabetes on the practical management of diabetes and dementia. It includes a series of recommendations to promote a consistent, high-quality approach towards caring for people with both conditions.  Trend Diabetes say:  “This guidance has been developed to highlight the importance of recognising the relationship between diabetes and dementia,…

Housing and care provider Anchor has become a Real Living Wage employer, agreeing to pay staff a minimum of £10.90 an hour outside London and £11.95 within London. The provider employs over 9,000 staff across the country and claims to be the largest to achieve accreditation as a living wage employer by the Living Wage…