Local organisations will be held to account and expected to publish how they are providing quality care for people with dementia, Care Service Minister Paul Burstow announced recently.
Alzheimer’s Society has launched its ‘Worried about your memory’ campaign to encourage people worried about their memory to seek help as soon as possible.
The Government has launched an update of the existing implementation plan for the National Dementia Strategy.
Made up of nine short sections, the tour features an animated 3D brain accompanied by video commentary from Alzheimer’s Society’s Dr. Anne Corbett, to demonstrate the ways in which dementia can affect the brain.
The University of Bristol Dementia Research Group has been awarded a grant to research why high blood pressure and strokes can cause brain damage that can lead to dementia.
Researchers, based at Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry, have discovered a gene linked to Alzheimer’s already affects young people’s brains decades before any symptoms appear.
The September 2010 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter is available to download from the Innovations in Dementia website.
Figures released this week in the World Alzheimer Report suggest that the cost of dementia care will approach £400 billion, roughly 1% of world GDP.
The UK’s leading dementia research charity, the Alzheimer’s Research Trust, has awarded a record £4.3 million to new research projects in 2010, the largest ever UK charity commitment to dementia research in a single year.
An international team of Alzheimer’s experts have identified a genetic marker that could be used to predict how fast Alzheimer’s disease will develop in patients.