Cutting-edge project highlights benefits of hair care in dementia treatment
A good hair day not only affects how we look but also impacts on how we feel and a new study, led by the University of Stirling, highlights for the
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Engage: St Andrews – A dementia friendly community
Dr Maggie Ellis, Fellow in Dementia Care at the St Andrews University, is spearheading a new initiative aimed at making St Andrews a dementia friendly community. Here she shares with
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Pioneering study helping give a voice to young people living with a parent with dementia
A pioneering study led by researchers from the University of Sheffield is helping to give a voice to children and young adults who are living with a parent with dementia.
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Universities join forces to launch consortium to tackle dementia in Greater Manchester
Manchester, Salford and Manchester Metropolitan universities are teaming up in a new initiative to combat dementia in the region and beyond. To mark Dementia Awareness Week last week, leading researchers
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Innovative project looks to harness cutting-edge design to support Dementia sufferers
International researchers gathered in the Midlands to start work on a ground-breaking new design project, called ‘MinD’, which will harness cutting-edge design to benefit people with dementia. Representatives from Germany,
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Report: Mental Welfare Commission reports on NHS wards across Scotland
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has published 13 new reports on its visits to NHS hospital wards and units for people with mental ill health, learning disability or dementia.
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Webwatch: Sea Hero Quest – Ground-breaking mobile game to support early dementia diagnosis
Sea Hero Quest is an innovative new mobile game specifically designed to create the world’s largest crowd sourced data set to benchmark human spatial navigation. Launched by Deutsche Telekom, one
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New survey reveals older people fear dementia more than cancer
To mark Dementia Awareness Week, Saga has released new data that shows that 43% of over 50s list dementia as their most feared disease, ahead of cancer (30%) or a
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People avoiding GP appointments about dementia ‘scared life will be over’
People put off visiting their GP with symptoms of dementia due to fears that their lives “will be over”, research suggests. A poll for the Alzheimer’s Society found 56% of
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Plymouth to lead pan-European Alzheimer’s training and research programme
A pan-European consortium of researchers and diagnostics experts led by Plymouth University, has received funding of €3.5 million for a project which could revolutionise the effectiveness of Alzheimer’s diagnosis and
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