Many people with dementia are receiving “disjointed and substandard” care, MPs have warned. Seven in ten people with the condition are also suffering from another long-term health problem but these
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Eight care home staff, including the owner and the cleaner, have gone on trial accused of deliberately neglecting an elderly and vulnerable man who was left to live in conditions
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A protein found lacking in the brains of Alzheimer’s sufferers could provide the key to a potential treatment, scientists believe. Researchers say the discovery that the IL-33 protein has the
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A group called Re-Live is using the power of theatre to deliver innovative dementia training aimed at the social care workforce. The training is based around a bilingual play called
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People with two common types of dementia are frequently being misdiagnosed and given inappropriate medicines, experts have said. There must be greater recognition of the two little-known forms of the
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Personhood is at the core of person-centred care for people with dementia (PWD) (Kitwood, 1997). Life story work (LSW) is one of the most commonly utilised tools to focus those
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A recent National Conference & Graduation event saw 97 health and social service professionals from across Scotland graduate to become Dementia Champions. The Dementia Champion graduates are the sixth group
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The University of Derby’s free online short course ‘Bridging the Dementia Divide’ was originally launched in July, 2015 to improve dementia care and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions for people living
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Alzheimer’s disease has a worse effect on women than men, researchers have said. Women with Alzheimer’s have poorer cognitive abilities than men at the same stage of the disease, the
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Short-term memory, long-term memory, amnesia, dementia, Alzheimer’s – people often use these terms incorrectly. The reason is partly because memory is one of the most complex mental abilities. It involves
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