A Stourbridge care home is celebrating after achieving Platinum accreditation through the National Dementia Care Accreditation Scheme (NaDCAS), the highest level of recognition available, placing…
Read more...Dementia carers in England face a “postcode lottery” in their quality of life, with those in some areas faring markedly worse than those in others,…
Read more...Residents at Telford Hall care home in Telford, Shropshire, enjoyed a celebration of Chinese culture and performing arts thanks to a special visit from CultureKind…
Read more...Today, (November 11) the Casey Commission on Adult Social Care will publish a report by the Nuffield Trust and Institute for Government on the governance…
Read more...The care system in England forces over 220,000 people to pay all their adult social care costs, making the country a stark outlier among comparable…
Read more...Prime Minister Andy Burnham has backed the Daily Mail and Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Carers Together Appeal after revealing how his mother was left “sinking” under…
Read more...Magnolia Court Care Home is celebrating after Head of Housekeeping Diana Harry was named Care Home Housekeeper of the Year at the National Care Awards….
Read more...Newcastle University is a partner in a £20 million research hub developing AI and data-driven tools to help the NHS prevent dementia and improve early…
Read more...Former prime minister Lord Cameron is among a group of leading dementia specialists calling for Alzheimer’s medicines currently unavailable on the NHS to be made…
Read more...Signature at Surbiton, a new luxury care home from Signature Senior Lifestyle, has officially opened its doors on Ewell Road with a launch celebration bringing…
Read more...A £20 million research hub led by the University of Exeter will build the artificial intelligence and data systems the NHS needs to prevent dementia. The money will help develop new technologies and AI solutions to…
Read more...A major new study will examine proteins in the blood of more than 80,000 UK Biobank volunteers in the hope of uncovering the earliest biological changes linked to dementia, Alzheimer’s Research UK has announced.
Read more...Care England and Dementia Forward have warned that there may be up to 100,000 working-age people with dementia across England (40,000 more than common estimates suggest). Despite this, 95% of local authorities have no way of recording young-onset dementia (YOD) in their data systems.
Read more...An international team led by Northumbria University has developed and validated a simple five-factor risk score to identify older people at elevated risk of dementia in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) – where around 60% of the world’s dementia cases now occur.
Read more...Care homes across England are welcoming local schoolchildren through their doors and taking residents and staff into classrooms, as part of the national launch of ‘The Books on Grandpa’s Shelf’, a new illustrated children’s book…
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