Dementia

A 76-year-old published poet who rediscovered her love of teaching and writing poetry has established a poetry group for dementia sufferers, despite also suffering with…

The Orders of St John Care Trust, which runs 68 care homes across Lincolnshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, has once again supported Dementia Awareness Week…

Staff and residents at Care South’s Maiden Castle House care home in Dorchester have had a fantastic time this week celebrating National Dementia Awareness Week…

‘Dementia Champion’ Stephenie Stockley, returned to the care home where her father spent the last years of his life to support relatives and friends and…

EachStep Blackburn is a £5m state-of-the-art dementia care home that provides specialist residential, nursing and respite care. It has been developed by the award-winning national…

To mark Dementia Awareness Week, Saga releases new data that shows that 43% of over 50s list dementia as their most feared disease, ahead of…

Dementia Champions at specialist care provider, Hallmark Care Homes will attempt to make 1,000 people Dementia Friends this Dementia Awareness Week which runs from the…

Over half (56%) of people are putting off seeking a dementia diagnosis for up to a year or more, a study carried out by Alzheimer’s…

A family-owned Dorset care home teamed up with two Premiership football clubs to enable a 90-year-old fan with dementia to attend their match as a…

Researchers from the University of Exeter will appear on BBC Two’s flagship science strand Horizon this week [8pm on Wednesday May 11] to talk about…

The study published today in The Lancet Psychiatry found that over 55s who had steadily increasing symptoms of depression over an 11-year period were more…

Dementia Awareness Week, which starts on Sunday May 15th, offers more than knowledge and advice for the 850,000 sufferers and thousands of carers involved in…

Bearded men across the UK are being called on to take part in a world record challenge for dementia research – for the largest number…

Leeds Beckett University is hosting a week-long programme of innovative, informative and interactive events in a bid to raise awareness about dementia within society. Led…