Dementia Community

07/09/2025

🚨 Tomorrow! Free Online Event – Open to All 🚨

🎶 Music & Dementia: The UK’s First Centre of Excellence
🗓 Monday 8 Sept, 2–3pm
👥 Giles Wilmore & Bev Taylor

Come and hear how the UK’s first Centre of Excellence is taking shape — what it aims to do, how it’s being built, and why it matters for people affected by dementia.

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05/09/2025

Navigating the National Emergency Alert test

The National Emergency Alert test could be distressing and confusing for a person with dementia, so it is important to consider how they might respond.

03/09/2025

🚨 1 Week to Go Until Our Next Free Online Event – Open to All 🚨

🎶 Music & Dementia: The UK’s First Centre of Excellence
🗓 Monday 8 Sept, 2–3pm
👥 Giles Wilmore & Bev Taylor

💡 Why come?

Explore how music is being used to help shape dementia care

Hear directly from leaders in the field

Connect with others interested in better care

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02/09/2025

🚨 Early Bird Ends September 26th! 🚨

Join us at the 19th UK Dementia Congress – 17 & 18 November at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.

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01/09/2025

📬 The new Dementia Community Members Newsletter is out.
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01/09/2025

Charlotte Stoner, a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, is looking for feedback from people living with dementia about an application she is co-writing for a research project creating a new questionnaire about wellbeing for people with dementia. It’s hoped that the questionnaire will become a new measure that’s used in research and care.

Aspects of wellbeing already identified by people living with dementia that will be added to the questionnaire include the importance of relationships, feeling safe and secure, and feeling respected and valued by others. Charlotte and her colleagues would like to work further with people living with dementia to ensure that their questionnaire reflects the widest range of experiences.

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01/09/2025

The Lewy Body Society has announced plans to celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2026.

The annual Lewy Body Awareness Week will move from June to January in 2026 to coincide with World Lewy Body Day (28 January).

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31/08/2025

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has launched their Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) resources via a newly created Hub.

The BGS say:
“CGA is the cornerstone of good quality care for older people, and, despite its name, it is not just an assessment but a process.

Our Hub equips the entire multidisciplinary team, across a wide range of clinical settings, with the tools and skills to embed CGA into their everyday care of older patients. It is crucial that people living with frailty and multimorbidity receive personalised care when and where they need it. Good CGA is the best way to help you deliver this.”

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30/08/2025

‘Carer Connect’, a new initiative dedicated to understanding and supporting the millions of unpaid carers across the UK, has been launched by Grace Carers and Ontex.

In its first stage this initiative is conducting a consultation, with the findings from that due to be compiled into a white paper of recommendations entitled ‘Caring by Love, not by Pay: Stories and solutions from unpaid carers’. This white paper will then influence Carer Connect’s first support offer in late 2025.

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29/08/2025

Carers UK has secured three years of funding from Sport England to relaunch their ‘Carers Active’ project.

When this project was funded previously, a Carers Active Hub was created with resources including exercise videos and activity ideas. You can find some of these resources here: https://buff.ly/5OBTuiR

The re-launched project will see Carers UK work with professionals in the sport, leisure, health and care sectors. Local partnerships will enable carers to join community activities, and Carers UK are planning mini campaigns and challenge events that focus on accessible, low-cost activities that carers can participate in around their caring role.

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29/08/2025

In addition to Dementia U.K.’s release of ‘A pub conversation’ with Tommy and Andrew (that we reported on here: https://buff.ly/pNhL2ZC), conversation starters have been shared to help people struggling to talk about dementia. There is also information aimed at supporting children and young people to have conversations about dementia.

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28/08/2025

Researchers at King's College London Impact Centre for Palliative and End of Life Care are looking for palliative and end of life care professionals to complete their Stakeholder Survey.

The researchers say:
“Too many people die without the care they need and could benefit from. We have evidence of what works, but too often this evidence is not translated into the care that patients and families receive. The Impact Centre for Palliative and End of Life Care aims to unlock the value of this evidence, accelerate better care for people affected by dying, death and bereavement and reduce low-value care. By completing this survey, you will help shape the priorities for the Impact Centre.”

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