Dementia

The Dementia Challenge report describes achievements in the 3 main areas of the challenge: driving improvements in health and care, creating dementia friendly communities and better research.

Talks from two Design Forums looking at how design can respond to the needs of an ageing population.

The King’s Fund’s Enhancing the Healing Environment Programme 2009-2012

A progress report has been published providing an update on the first 7 months of the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge.

BUPA has published a toolkit designed to help people living with dementia and their carers to maintain communication as the condition progresses.

Verd de gris, based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire has developed a book that offers ways to help with long term care and dementia.

Age-related chronic conditions absorb the largest, and growing, share of health care budgets. To address this, strategies of care co-ordination are needed to promote more cost-effective care through streamlining services.

This study examined short and longer term effects of musical and cooking interventions on emotional wellbeing of severe Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients.

“Remembering Together: Reminiscence Training for people with dementia and their family carers” (RTRT) involved partners in 10 EU countries.

First Taste is a small arts educational charity that promotes arts educational and stimulative activities for frail older people in nursing and residential care homes and day care centres principally, but not exclusively, in the Derbyshire Dales.