People with Mild Cognitive Impairment who are at risk of developing Alzheimer’s could be spotted ten years before the disease develops according to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Dementia has launched its next inquiry which will focus on improving dementia diagnosis rates across the UK.
The Personnel Social Service Research Unit and Housing LIN have jointly published the evaluation of the Department of Health’s Extra Care Housing Fund.
The Alzheimer’s Society report ‘Short changed: Protecting people with dementia from financial abuse’ highlights that an alarming number of people have been subject to financial abuse and calls for people with dementia to be better protected.
This research set out to investigate what happens when older people are given the opportunity to shape service commissioning and delivery. The study also raises wider questions about the impact of their involvement, particularly whether it can change the nature of local power relations in the long term.
The December 2011 edition of the Living with dementia magazine is available to download from the Alzheimer’s Society website.
This guide published by the Kings Fund sets out the current best practice to help CCGs develop their own local governance arrangements to give confidence that decisions are taken in an appropriate, transparent way.
This briefing paper by Jeremy Porteus, Director of the Housing learning and improvement network, provides an overview of the health and social care ‘dividend’ that can be achieved by closer integration and partnership working with housing.
The Health Research Authority was launched on 01 December 2011 to protect and promote the interests of patients and the public in health research.
Researchers in Germany were able to postpone a decline in cognitive function amongst people with dementia in a nursing-home setting who participated in a 12 month regime of behavioural and mental exercises.