The UK’s medicines cost watchdog is to take a fresh look at two high-profile Alzheimer’s treatments after successful appeals from their manufacturers. National Institute for…
Read more...Restrictive practices such as physical restraint, bed rails, or lap belts remain one of the most challenging aspects of health and social care. Intended to…
Read more...Hundreds of workers travelled to Parliament earlier this week from around the country to push for a reversal of immigration plans that would make it…
Read more...Concurrent physical frailty and depression likely boost the risk of dementia in older people, with the interaction of these 2 factors alone contributing around 17%…
Read more...Dementia has retained its position as the UK’s biggest killer for another year, claiming 76,894 lives in 2024 according to new analysis from Alzheimer’s Research…
Read more...The social care sector has achieved a remarkable digital transformation, with four in five care providers now utilising digital social care records (DSCRs) – a…
Read more...Multi Sensory Care Solutions: Bringing Outstanding Care Excellence to Your Setting When a care facility achieves an Outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission, placing…
Read more...A record half a million people have received a dementia diagnosis on the NHS, as the health service ramps up support for the country’s biggest…
Read more...194 Member States of World Health Organisation have now formally adopted an extension to the Global Action Plan on dementia until 2031. As the international…
Read more...Bluebird Care Reading, Wokingham, Windsor, Maidenhead and Bracknell has announced that one of their exceptional live-in carers, Kadijatu Koroma, has been named Regional Winner of…
Read more...MPs have overturned an exemption for adult social care providers from the forthcoming increase in employer national insurance contributions (NICs), in what sector leaders have…
Read more...A groundbreaking new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, developed by Aberdeen-based pharmaceutical company TauRX, could soon be available on the NHS, offering hope to millions of…
Read more...ONE of Scotland’s leading care facilities has announced the appointment of a new specialist that will further improve its high-quality dementia services. Elaine Vallance…
Read more...HC-One has opened its new pilot Specialist Dementia Care Community (SDCC) in Meadow Bank Care Home, in Preston, Lancashire. Pioneering a new therapeutic approach, this…
Read more...A Worcester care home welcomes family, friends and all members of the Worcester community to its very own memory café on Thursday the 9th of…
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