Dementia Charity Advises About Clock Change Confusion
As winter comes to an end and the days become longer, people across the nation are preparing to put their clocks forward an hour on…
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MPs Meet With Dementia Charity To Discuss NHS Continuing Healthcare Funding
A group of high-profile MPs including Elliot Colburn (Conservative MP for Carshalton and Wallington and vice-chair of the APPG on Dementia), Mims Davies (Conservative, Minister…
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HC-One Win Tees Valley Football Tournament In Aid Of Raising Funds For Dementia UK
HC-One’s Darlington Support Office team have raised over £620 for Dementia UK after winning a Tees Valley football tournament in Teesside. The tournament, which was…
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Shropshire Care Home Offers Free Workshop On Caring For Loved Ones With Dementia
Families and loved ones of those living with dementia will have the chance to get expert advice as part of a series of workshops being…
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Scott Mitchell Named People’s Champion Of The Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission
Scott Mitchell, husband of the late Dame Barbara Windsor and Alzheimer’s Research UK Ambassador, has been appointed People’s Champion of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia…
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Exercise Class For Those With Dementia Proves “Huge Success”
The First open Love to Move exercise class for those living with dementia in Barnsley was a “huge success”, according to organisers. Dozens of care…
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Community Walks In Shoes Of Those Living With Dementia
Bluebird Care North Hampshire and West Berkshire hosted the Mobile Dementia Virtual Tour at their offices in Kingsclere which allowed care teams, families, and friends,…
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Tributes Paid to Author And Dementia Campaigner Wendy Mitchell
Tributes have been pouring in for the late Dr Wendy Mitchell, who was diagnosed with dementia and spent years documenting her experience, and who has…
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Support Choice-Based Safety Monitoring in Dementia Care Homes Prime Minister Urged
Care Campaign for the Vulnerable (CCFTV) is a national, a not-for-profit safety in elderly care organisation has written an open Letter to Prime Minister Rishi…
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Government Urged to Abolish ‘Unfair Dementia Tax’
An open letter calling for VAT to be removed dementia care was handed in to 10 Downing Street on by campaigners. The Filo Project, an…
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Blood Tests May Predict Dementia 15 Year Before Diagnosis
A blood test that looks for changes in certain proteins could predict dementia up to 15 years before diagnosis, research suggests. Scientists have identified 11…
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Day Care Boost For Veterans And Partners Living With Disability Or Dementia
A charity has relaunched its popular Day Care service to support veterans. Royal Star & Garter resumed the sessions from its High Wycombe and Solihull…
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Erectile Dysfunction Drugs May Be Linked To Reduced Risk Of Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Suggests
Drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction could also be linked to a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to new research from University College…
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Development And Sale Of Alzheimer’s Drug, Aducanumab, Ceased
The pharmaceutical company, Biogen, announced this week that it will stop developing and marketing the Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab (commercially known as Aduhelm). Aducanumab is designed…
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“Very Rare” Cases Of Transmissible Alzheimer’s Disease Identified
New research, published today in Nature Medicine, has identified five cases of Alzheimer’s disease believed to have arisen because of a medical treatment decades earlier….
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