Suranne Jones has spoken about her mother’s experience with dementia and called on others to help fight the disease. The star of Gentleman Jack and Doctor Foster lost her mother
Read More
A new scientific study marks another step towards understanding the causes of dementia in ex-athletes, according to a former England football captain. Alan Shearer has described the work by researchers
Read More
Older people who experience significant weight gain or loss may be at an increased risk of developing dementia, new research suggests. A study, published in journal BMJ Open, found a
Read More
A carer’s experience can impact on the ability of a person with dementia to “live well” with the condition, new research suggests. If carers feel highly stressed, lack confidence in
Read More
Almost a quarter of a million people with dementia will be living alone within the next 20 years, a charity has said. At the moment, an estimated 120,000 people with
Read More
A 17-year-old boy has been detained in a psychiatric hospital indefinitely after killing a university lecturer with electric drills, knives and a hammer. The teenager carried out the “sustained and
Read More
A “fantasist” who claimed to be in the elite SBS special forces unit has been jailed for his part in a plot to dump a dementia-suffering American pensioner in rural
Read More
Dame Barbara Windsor has thanked the public after donations to Barbara’s Revolutionaries, her husband’s team running the Virgin Money London Marathon, hit £100,000 with two days to go. Scott Mitchell
Read More
Vicky McClure has spoken out about funding for dementia research after filming a documentary about the connection between the condition and music. Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure brings together
Read More
GPs could begin prescribing tailored technology to dementia patients to help them live at home for longer, scientists say. A new £20 million research centre, based at Imperial College London,
Read More