In the Limelight is a 12 week project situated at an arts venue in North London, it aims to use theatre to help recall memories from long ago reports The Times.
The long term memory of dementia patients can remain untouched for years, it is the part of the brain where the short term memories read more »

A new care project has shown how literature, music, art and love can improve the lives of dementia suffers reports The Times.
Actress Rita Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzhemier’s in 1981 at the age of 63. Her behaviour was said to have been extremely demanding and difficult. She suffered from anxiety, aggression and agitation all read more »

Although Dementia now costs the UK economy twice as much as cancer it still only receives a fraction of the funding.
The Alzheimer’s Research Trust has said that for every one pound that is spent on dementia research, 12 times that goes to investigating cancer.
Researchers from Oxford University have compared the cost of caring read more »

Psychiatry professor Alistair Burns has taken on the huge task of overseeing how dementia is dealt with in England, reports BBC News
His job will involve continuing leadership of the dementia strategy launched last year by health secretary Alan Johnson. Alongside this his job will also be to promote better care of people with dementia read more »

A recent report from BBC news highlights the benefits of a drug which is normally used to lower blood pressure, in the fight against Alzhemier’s disease.
People taking angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) are 50% less likely to develop dementia than those taking other blood pressure drugs. Research has shown that when ARBs are combined with read more »

As part of Barnet’s new In The Limelight project, Artsdepot is inviting people over the age of 60 who are in the early stages of dementia, to step into the spotlight and take part in a variety of theatre workshops.
Along with their carers, the participants will take part in a programme of workshops which will read more »

Sadly, not all of us are lucky enough to be spending Christmas with our friends and families with half a million pensioners spending Christmas day alone. Almost three in five people over the age of 55 wish the could see more of their family. It seems that the loneliness has also reached across the pond, read more »

New BBC documentary “Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes? “ explores the nations care homes and concludes that the care industry has a long way to before we can be sure that our loved ones will spend the final years of their lives in a happy and truly caring environment.
In 20 years time read more »

Health secretary Andy Burnham, believes that there is discrimination in the NHS which is resulting in those over 65 not receiving the mental health care they need, reports BBC News.
For the first time ever in the U.K, the year 2007 saw the population of those over 65, rise above the population of under 16’s. This read more »

In a recent poll a quarter of nurses have reported that anti psychotic drugs are being wrongly prescribed to dementia patients on general hospital wards.
The survey, which polled 650 nurses and 450 nurse managers revealed that the widespread use of these powerful drugs is often just to control ‘difficult’ patients.
In relation to this, research has read more »