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Dementia Community We are an independent voice and inclusive organisation. We are Dementia Community

Our core purpose is to connect and empower the dementia care community.

Dementia Community is a Charitable Community Benefit Society, a membership cooperative that provides learning and networking opportunities for the dementia care community. Our vision is to create a world where all people in the dementia care community feel connected, informed, empowered and purposeful. A place were we are actively engaged in co-producing changes that improve everyone’s experience

of dementia in care and in wider society. Dementia Community is an organisation which:
• Publishes the Journal of Dementia Care
• Produces the UK Dementia Congress
• Organises the National Dementia Care Awards
• Connects everyone who is engaged in improving the lives of people living with and impacted by dementia

You are warmly invited to join us as a community member, investor member or subscriber member of the Dementia Community. https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/dementia-community-membership

Take a look at our special issue of the Journal of Dementia Care - Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in Dementia Care

Journal of Dementia Care - https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/

The Journal of Dementia Care is a bi-monthly digital publication combining research and best practice for care providers, commissioners, researchers, people living with dementia and family carers. Established more than 30 years ago, the Journal of Dementia Care is a highly valued specialist resource supporting learning, debate and development for all people involved in dementia care.

Skills for Care are looking for people with lived experience of dementia and health and adult social provision to partic...
18/07/2025

Skills for Care are looking for people with lived experience of dementia and health and adult social provision to participate in a review of the Dementia Core Skills Education and Training framework.

The review has been commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care to support the health and adult social care workforces. The review has begun and is scheduled to continue throughout the UK summer, with the hope that a revised framework will be published by the end of 2025.

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Skills for Care are looking for 90 adult social care employers to pioneer the Care Workforce Pathway as part of a new su...
18/07/2025

Skills for Care are looking for 90 adult social care employers to pioneer the Care Workforce Pathway as part of a new support programme building towards a national rollout.

The Care Workforce Pathway is a career structure for adult social care which has been developed by the Department of Health and Social Care and Skills for Care, alongside representatives from the adult social care sector and people who draw on care and support.

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The UK Government has launched ‘Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England’. The Plan has been created followin...
17/07/2025

The UK Government has launched ‘Fit for the Future: 10 Year Health Plan for England’.

The Plan has been created following the Change NHS initiative (which we reported on here: https://buff.ly/NJsP94C) that was launched in autumn 2024 to gather views and opinions on the NHS.

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The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) has opened nominations for their National Activity Awards, which will...
17/07/2025

The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) has opened nominations for their National Activity Awards, which will take place in Liverpool on Friday 23rd January 2026.

NAPA say:
“Do you know someone who brings joy, energy and creativity into the lives of others through outstanding activity provision? Someone who goes above and beyond to ensure that every individual feels seen, heard and included? Now’s your chance to recognise them.”

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Care England – supported by Ally Cares - has published a white paper entitled: ‘The Sleep Gap: The Overlooked Factor Cos...
16/07/2025

Care England – supported by Ally Cares - has published a white paper entitled: ‘The Sleep Gap: The Overlooked Factor Costing Lives, Time and Trust in Care’.

The white paper features research and data that shows many care home residents are getting fewer than five hours of uninterrupted sleep per night, and links this poor sleep with an increased risk of falls, infections, malnutrition, cognitive decline, and early hospital admissions.

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The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has launched a UK-wide recruitment drive for clinical trials....
16/07/2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has launched a UK-wide recruitment drive for clinical trials.

Adults across the UK are being urged to register, with underrepresented groups - including young people and people from diverse ethnic backgrounds - particularly encouraged to sign up to ‘Be Part of Research’.

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A gene therapy has been hailed as potentially ‘transformative’ in stopping the progression of a genetic type of frontote...
15/07/2025

A gene therapy has been hailed as potentially ‘transformative’ in stopping the progression of a genetic type of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) known as FTD-GRN. This type of FTD is caused by mutations of a gene that leads to a deficiency of progranulin (GRN), a protein that is essential for maintaining healthy brain cells.

The company working on the therapy, AviadoBio, was born out of research done at King’s College London by Professor Christopher Shaw, a neurologist who has focused on FTD and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for more than three decades, and Dr Youn Bok Lee and Dr Do Young Lee from the UK Dementia Research Institute’s (UK DRI) centre based at King’s.

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🎥 Did you miss our free live webinar?You can now watch Alleviating Social Isolation Through Intergenerational Connection...
15/07/2025

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A study, published in the British Journal of General Practice, has shown that the rollout of Social Prescribing Link Wor...
14/07/2025

A study, published in the British Journal of General Practice, has shown that the rollout of Social Prescribing Link Workers has led to improved patient outcomes and experiences.

Four million patient records were analysed for the study, making this the largest investigation into the national impact of the UK Government’s 2019 drive to increase the numbers of Social Prescribing Link Workers.

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in Americ...
14/07/2025

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first blood test for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease in America.

This follows a US study, published in the journal Alzheimer's and Dementia, where scientists tested patients from an outpatient memory clinic in Florida to look for two proteins - amyloid beta 42/40 and p-tau217.

Dr Gregg Day, who led the study, says:

“Our study found that blood testing affirmed the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease with 95% sensitivity and 82% specificity. When performed in the outpatient clinical setting, this is similar to the accuracy of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of the disease and is much more convenient and cost-effective.”

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As part of the Carers Week coverage on the inequalities unpaid carers face (that we covered here: https://buff.ly/W1KHWp...
12/07/2025

As part of the Carers Week coverage on the inequalities unpaid carers face (that we covered here: https://buff.ly/W1KHWpc), Age UK has highlighted the specific impact of caring on older people.

Publishing analysis about older unpaid carers, Age UK has shared that:

2.1 million unpaid carers are aged 65 plus.

420,000 unpaid carers are aged 80 and above.

55% of older carers have a long-term illness or disability.

85% of older carers worry about whether they will be able to keep caring or providing support.

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Carers UK has partnered with The Centre for Care at the Universities of Sheffield and Birmingham to launch a new interac...
11/07/2025

Carers UK has partnered with The Centre for Care at the Universities of Sheffield and Birmingham to launch a new interactive dashboard that is intended to be a one-stop-shop of data on unpaid caring across England and Wales.

The dashboard allows viewers to analyse – at local authority level - ONS Census data on unpaid carers and the economic value of unpaid carers. It’s been developed in consultation with local authorities, carers centres and unpaid carers, and provides data on different aspects of unpaid care to identify inequalities and disparities within different regional areas to inform local and national policy, decision making and commissioning for unpaid carers.

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It is a multi-disciplinary, bi-monthly journal aimed at all professionals working with people with dementia. It recognises that professional carers working with people with dementia have their own special demands which deserve a specialist publication. The Journal of Dementia Care has the following aims: To provide a strong editorial commitment to improving the quality of care provided for people with dementia in hospitals, residential and nursing homes, daycare and homecare settings. To raise the profile of all professionals working in this specialist field. To present the ideas and opinions of professionals working with people with dementia. To emphasise the value and importance of training and staff development to achieve high quality care.