Researchers from the University College London have found that common dementia risk factors may have a more pronounced effect among people from certain ethnicities. The…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has funded two researchers from Cardiff University to carry out projects aimed at finding new treatments…
Read more...Marie Curie is calling on health and social care professionals to take part in a critical survey to help researchers understand what topics of palliative…
Read more...An Alzheimer’s Society survey of over 1,000 unpaid current and former carers of people with dementia shows that family and friends are the backbone of…
Read more...Older people from minoritised ethnic communities are being let down when it comes to escaping poverty, as language barriers, government mistrust and a lack of…
Read more...Promising preliminary results from a trial of the Alzheimer’s drug donanemab, first announced in May, have now been confirmed. The full results were made public…
Read more...Exemplar Health Care, a leading provider of specialist care for adults living with complex needs, has announced a new partnership with The Brain Charity, a…
Read more...A new survey from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) looks at how co-production is perceived in the UK today. Co-production is about working…
Read more...Today (15 June 2023), Alzheimer’s Research UK, and Race Against Dementia (RAD), a charity founded by Jackie Stewart OBE, have announced their half a million…
Read more...Despite promises to implement more preventative social care strategies the government does not understand what preventative care looks like researchers have revealed. Swansea University researchers…
Read more...People who consume fewer plant-based chemical substances, called flavanols, as part of their diet may be more likely to experience age-related memory decline, suggests a…
Read more...People who have had an ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack (TIA) should have a genetic test to find out whether they can be treated…
Read more...New research on social care and older people resulted in a toolkit designed by The Open University aimed at transforming the well-being of older people…
Read more...Alzheimer’s Research UK and Alzheimer’s Society have been selected as the recipients of this year’s People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL) Dream Fund, worth £5m. This is…
Read more...Structural weaknesses left social care struggling to provide the service and protection that people needed during the initial waves of Covid-19. Lack of visibility of…
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