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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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People suffering with severe mental impairments in Britain face missing out on financial help with council tax because of their postcode, according to a charity. Council tax discounts and rebates
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More people with dementia should be given music or dance therapy in a bid to prevent them being “over-medicalised”, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock said that while guidance
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Scientists at the University of East Anglia will investigate the link between sleep and dementia at a new state-of-the-art sleep unit opening today. Sleep disturbances are common in dementia.
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