We will remember them: Wren Hall, a specialist dementia nursing home in Nottinghamshire, hosted a special Remembrance Day on March 27 as a mark of respect to everyone affected by the pandemic. It was exactly three years after the home’s first family member tested positive for Covid-19. The “We Will Remember Day” brought people together to pay tribute to all those who were lost and celebrate the fortitude of the Wren Hall community.
Another £2m of funding has been announced to enable the READ-OUT study to offer digital cognitive tests alongside blood tests. READ-OUT (which we last reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/blood-biomarker-trial-underway-in-the-read-out-study) is part of the Blood Biomarker Challenge (which we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/blood-biomarker-challenge-for-dementia-diagnosis). The digital cognitive tests will measure memory and thinking and take less than 10 minutes to…
The forthcoming national dementia strategy will include a major focus on prevention and research, health secretary Sajid Javid told delegates at the annual conference of the Alzheimer’s Society this week (17 May), announcing a 10-year plan he said would be visionary, properly funded and “more ambitious than anything we’ve done before”. Data suggests as much…
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has launched ‘Seeing the whole person supports better care’, a campaign to support nurses to think holistically about each person they support. The campaign includes case studies that share the experiences of nurses and a one-page PDF that provides a simple explanation of holistic support. You can find out…
Following the announcement in January that there will be an independent commission into adult social care chaired by Baroness Louise Casey (we reported on this here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/uk-government-announce-casey-commission-into-adult-social-care), the UK Government has now published the Terms of Reference for the Commission. You can read the Terms of Reference here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-commission-into-adult-social-care-terms-of-reference/independent-commission-into-adult-social-care-terms-of-reference Commenting on the Terms of Reference,…
Longstanding friends of the UK Dementia Congress and JDC, Philly Hare and Rachel Niblock, have stepped down from their roles with Innovations in Dementia. We have worked with Philly and Rachel for many years through their time at Innovations in Dementia as they have supported people with dementia to have a pivotal role in our…
A genetic risk score for Alzheimer’s disease has been developed by an international team of scientists following a study that has cast considerable light on the genetics underlying the condition. Researchers linked 75 regions of the human genome to Alzheimer’s, 42 of which had never been associated with the disease previously. Results published in the…