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Next Steps website launched
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted on waiting times for memory assessments, with many memory service staff being redeployed and some services closing temporarily. Many people experiencing memory problems are now waiting longer for their appointments, prolonging the...
Think Local Act Personal would like to hear from you
This directory, known as Innovations in Community Centred-Support, showcases types of support that are innovative in their approach to improving people’s health and wellbeing. It aims to inspire development that shifts these initiatives from the margins to the...
The Personalised Care Institute launches podcast series for healthcare professionals
Each episode of The Personalised Care Podcast will discuss how a personalised care approach – which requires health and care professionals to reframe their focus from ‘what’s the matter’ with them to ‘what matters’ to someone – can be applied in different scenarios,...
Crowded Isolation and Loneliness: report launched by Tide
This new report launched by tide (together in dementia) follows up on a survey which came about from conversations during tide carer connection sessions, about their roles as carers and how the isolation and loneliness of being a carer affects them. A number of themes...
Dementia UK launches ‘Going Out’ series of articles
With restrictions on social and leisure activities lifting, many people are now making plans to return to their favourite gallery or museum. The first in this new series of articles from Dementia UK, Consultant Admiral Nurse, Jules Knight provides guidance on how...
#AskHowIAm report and campaign launched
The report, which details the mental health needs of people living with physical ill health, was co produced by National Voices and the Centre for Mental Health, and with support from a range of long-term conditions charities. It shows the impact long-term conditions...
‘Whose Social Care is it Anyway?’ Inquiry group first findings
The Whose Social Care is it Anyway? inquiry, an initiative of the Social Care Future movement, received input from over 500 people about their experience with social care. The inquiry report, which is now available online, details five key changes that are required...
The 3 R’s of Social Care Reform: What can the Covid-19 pandemic teach us about social care reform?
The report,The 3 R's of Social Care Reform, is based on learning from the response to Covid-19, and it identified three key ingredients for reform. These are constructive risk taking, respectful relationships and a sense of reciprocity. These behaviours and attitudes...
‘Good Health and Wellbeing – Social Prescribing’ Playbook launched
The Playbook was launched by the National Academy for Social Prescribing, working as part of the Global Social Prescribing Alliance, at the panel session ‘Implementing Good Health and Wellbeing’. The publication, which is available online, showcases best practices in...
Alzheimer Europe virtual conference: early registration and call for abstracts
In preparation for the event, Alzheimer Europe is inviting abstract submissions for oral, quick oral and poster presentations on a wide range of subjects within the areas of Resilience and the COVID-19 pandemic, and Societal and medical perspectives. The call for...
WHO launches new platform for knowledge exchange on dementia
The Global Dementia Observatory Knowledge Exchange Platform shares key resources to support the implementation of the Global action plan on the public health response to dementia 2017-2025 and its seven action areas. This new tool provides a space for stakeholders to...
Dementia Action Week: Music for Dementia’s 7 days of action
Nearly 1 million people with dementia in the UK and their families are struggling to get the support and dignity of care that they deserve. In support of the Alzheimer’s Society's call to Cure the Care System, Music for Dementia has drawn up a challenge for people to...
Imperial College Health Partners invites you to share your experiences of diagnostic services
With the aim of developing an understanding of people’s experiences of diagnostic services, the ICHP is looking for people who are willing to take part in one-to-one phone or video interviews between 17th-28th May. An important part of this research is reaching...
The National Audit of Dementia invites people living with dementia to comment on new survey tool
The National Audit of Dementia measures the performance of general hospitals in England and Wales against standards relating to care delivery which are known to impact people with dementia during their hospital admission. With the aim of gathering more information...
Share your experience of remote assessment
The aim of the survey is to understand how people feel about undergoing assessments and/or receiving a diagnosis remotely. The short survey consists of 19 simple questions about your experience with the memory service. It will take 5-10 minutes to answer. Your...
The Buzz: new activities platform re-launched
Made possible through a Small Good Stuff grants scheme, new activity videos will be shared daily throughout April and beyond. The site already hosts over 100 different activity ideas with things like art, exercise, cooking and learning. Here’s a sample of what’s on...
Social Prescribing: Myth Buster Guide
Tackling areas such as funding, the role of link workers and the importance of strong evidence-based research and evaluation, the guide aims to debunk some myths associated with social prescribing by providing straight-forward information for the individuals or arts...
How to build public support to transform social care: research published
The Social Care Future movement believes that, in order to make progress in securing the desired future for social care, it is necessary to change the ways in which social care is currently spoken and thought about: as a broken system in crisis that ‘looked after...
Please give me space: initiative helps people with non-visible disabilities to socially distance
The Please give me space initiative is designed to alert members of the public that they should keep their distance from people wearing the ‘Please give me space’ symbol, as the wearer has difficulty maintaining social distance. The symbol can be downloaded free of...
Raising awareness of delirium
Delirium is a sudden change in mental state, which may be confusion, agitation, personality change, and difficulties with understanding and memory. It is also referred to as acute confusion. This new leaflet, Think Delirium, has recently been published. It is aimed...
£1.8 million to fund 37 social prescribing projects through the Thriving Communities Programme
The National Academy for Social Prescribing (NASP) and Arts Council England, Historic England and Natural England, NHS England and Improvement, Sport England, the Money and Pensions Service and NHS Charities Together, as part of the Thriving Communities Programme,...