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'Alarming shortage' of specialist consultants and nurses hindering stroke rehabilitation and aftercare
29 Nov 2016
Health experts are calling for an improvement in stroke rehabilitation services following an official audit of stroke services commissioned by the NHS. Around 9,000 patients a year could be missing out on.....
PM backs '1 Million Minutes' campaign to befriend lonely older people this Christmas
29 Nov 2016
Prime Minister Theresa May has backed Good Morning Britain’s '1 Million Minutes' campaign, asking people to pledge just 30 minutes of their time to help a lonely older person this Christmas. Launched in.....
Football mascot becomes Dementia Friend in partnership with Alzheimer's Society
28 Nov 2016
Hartlepool United has taken steps towards becoming a dementia friendly club by training its mascot, H’Angus the Monkey, as a Dementia Friend. Together with full-time staff at the League Two outfit, H’Angus.....
Alzheimer's charity awarded £172,000 grant for 'promising' research
25 Nov 2016
The Denise Coates Foundation has donated a generous £172,000 to Alzheimer’s Research UK to fund two dementia research projects. The grant will be used to fund two three-year PhD research scholarships at the.....
Songwriter of chart-topping charity single misses his mum who had dementia 'most at Christmas'
25 Nov 2016
Songwriter Alan Stott has teamed up with Birmingham Conservatoire to join the race for the Christmas number one, with a jazz version of ‘What are we gonna do for Christmas?’ in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. The.....
Carers Rights Day: NHS urged to identify carers and promote their health and wellbeing
25 Nov 2016
Carers UK used Carers Rights Day to call on the NHS to put policies in place that will identify carers and promote their health and wellbeing. This comes in the wake of research which found people often don’t.....
Anti-dementia drugs: People taking memantine have highest risk of pneumonia
23 Nov 2016
Memantine has been singled out as the riskiest drug, in a study which looked at which anti-dementia drugs put people most of risk of getting pneumonia. The research by the University of Eastern Finland found.....
Four out of five local authorities admit social care shortages
21 Nov 2016
Four out of five UK local authorities admit there is a care shortage for older people in their area, new research reveals. The Family and Childcare Trust’s (FACT) Older People’s Care survey 2016, (published.....
Chancellor Hammond urged to introduce social care vouchers
21 Nov 2016
Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to use Wednesday's Autumn Statement to help the public prepare for their social care costs and introduce 'eldercare' vouchers. Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme,.....
Hillary Clinton's done it, now watch Chelsea Pensioners do the Mannequin Challenge
18 Nov 2016
In her bid to become President of the United States, Hillary Clinton took the Mannequin Challenge to try to outdo Donald Trump but now Britain’s Chelsea Pensioners have been caught on film playing this game of statues. The.....
Dementia overtakes heart disease as leading cause of death in England
14 Nov 2016
Dementia is now the biggest killer in England and Wales, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS), having replaced heart disease as the leading cause of death. Some 61,686 people.....
Richard Branson's Virgin Care wins £700m deal to run adult social care services
10 Nov 2016
The board of the Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has authorised a seven-year contract with Virgin Care, marking the first time a for-profit company will run core adult social work services. Although.....
Complaints about home care rise by 25 per cent
10 Nov 2016
Complaints about the home care received by some of the most vulnerable people in England have risen by 25 per cent over the past year, the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has warned. The watchdog received.....
'Complex' referral criteria delay dementia diagnosis
09 Nov 2016
Complex and time-consuming referral criteria are contributing to delays in the diagnosis of dementia, according to a paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Scientists from Imperial.....
Family of 1966 World Cup hero backs new Dementia Friends Football campaign
08 Nov 2016
The family of England’s 1966 World Cup hero Ray Wilson, who played for Everton and Huddersfield and has Alzheimer’s disease, is backing the new Dementia Friends Football campaign. Four of the eight surviving.....
Fifty-nine-year-old completes 100th marathon in tribute to her mum who had dementia
08 Nov 2016
Susie Hewer from East Sussex,who recently completed her 100th marathon, raising £50,000 for Alzheimer’s Research UK, has revealed every marathon was a "tribute to her mum". Mrs Hewer beat her original target.....
Think tanks urge Government to address £1.9bn funding gap
08 Nov 2016
Three think tanks have urged the Government to address the “critical state of social care” in the forthcoming Autumn Statement on 23 November. In a joint plea to ministers, the Nuffield Trust, King's Fund.....
Emmerdale to air 'heart-breaking' dementia special
07 Nov 2016
Filming is underway for a special episode of Emmerdale which will give viewers an insight into living with dementia. Using special camerawork and editing techniques, audiences will see the world from the.....
Government to listen to dementia community so it can improve services
04 Nov 2016
The Department of Health has revealed a new listening programme to find out more about the experiences of people with dementia and their carers. The programme will use both face-to-face and online methods.....