The Long Goodbye – Alzheimer’s Society film 

Quality Compliance Systems (QCS), a company providing policies and toolkits to ensure care sector compliance with regulations, has refreshed and expanded its best practice guidance for supported living services. The content of existing policies has been updated with more inclusive language and new topics have been added such as positive behaviour support and communication. At…

A study published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine has suggested that alcohol use, even at moderate levels, may have no safe threshold when it comes to brain health.  Researchers from The University of Oxford, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge combined observational data from more than half a million participants in the US Million Veteran…

Scott Mitchell, husband of the late Dame Barbara Windsor, has been appointed People’s Champion of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission.  The Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission was launched in 2022 by the UK government in memory of Dame Barbara who died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2020. The Mission aims to develop innovative research tools…

Alzheimer Scotland has used Scottish Dementia Awareness Week 2025 to highlight the importance of friendship for enhancing wellbeing in every stage of dementia, both for people living with dementia and family/unpaid carers/care partners.  Under the banner of their ‘Every step’ campaign, Alzheimer Scotland shared stories from people personally affected by dementia talking about how friendship…

A study published in the journal Age and Ageing has shown that inappropriate polypharmacy – the excessive or unnecessary use of multiple medications – significantly contributes to emergency hospital admissions amongst adults aged 65 and over.  The study was conducted by the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Bath, who say:  “The study…