While UK government funding of dementia research is falling the US Congress has announced a $289 million increase for Alzheimer’s and dementia research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for fiscal year 2022, including $25 million to fund and implement the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act.
A new podcast series – Dementia from the Inside Out – has been launched by Tommy Dunne and Paul Hitchmough of Thred TV. Tommy and Paul both live with dementia and plan to share their thoughts and experiences on a wide-range of topics including music, communication, disinhibited behaviours and family carers, highlighting ways they cope. Tommy…
The University of Worcester Association for Dementia Studies have published new resources to support their DemECH Project, which explored how Extra Care Housing can help people to live well with dementia. The new resources, which are all available for free, are: Key insights booklets An infographic A series of short videos Find out more here:…
Carers UK has published ‘State of Caring 2024 – The state of caring on employment’ and (with Centre for Care), ‘Valuing Carers 2021/22: The value of unpaid care in the UK.’ State of Caring 2024 documents the challenges of trying to work whilst being an unpaid carer, and makes a series of recommendations for Government,…
Alzheimer’s Society has published new research for Dementia Action Week (13-19 May 2024) that shows the economic impact of dementia in the UK. The research was conducted by CF (Carnall Farrar Ltd), who analysed the records of 26,000 people dating back seven years. The statistics produced include: You can find out more about Dementia Action Week…
Local memory clinics are “chronically understaffed and overworked,” Alzheimer’s Society has said, as a backlog of people waiting for assessments builds up and diagnosis rates take a hit from the pandemic. “On a local level, we’ve heard that one memory clinic, which usually performs around 20 (memory) assessments per week, now has a nine-month waiting…
Following an application process for the UK’s second Centre of Excellence for Music and Dementia (which we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/applications-open-for-second-centre-of-excellence-for-music-and-dementia), Hertfordshire has been named as the successful applicant. Funded through The National Academy for Social Prescribing’s Power of Music Fund, which is supported by The Rayne Foundation, The Utley Foundation and others, the work…