Tag: Alzheimers Society
Alzheimer’s Society Respond to Queens Speech
The Queen’s Speech today outlined the government’s plans to introduce a draft Care and Support Bill within the next year. This draft bill, it is claimed, would set out how the government would modernise care and support law to ensure local authorities fit their services around the needs, outcomes and experience of people; build on [...]
Great Expectations For Alzheimer’s Society Fund Raiser Shaun Dooley
Star of BBC dramas Great Expectations, Married.Single.Other and Exile, actor Shaun Dooley will be running the Bupa London 10,000 on 27 May to raise funds for Alzheimer’s Society. Shaun, who also starred in the recent box office hit The Woman in Black, will be running through St James’ Park for the second year in a [...]
Eating fish, chicken and nuts could lower chances of Alzheimer’s
Eating foods containing omega 3 fatty acids including fish, chicken, salad dressing and nuts could lower levels of a protein linked with Alzheimer’s, a study published online in Neurology today (Wednesday, 02 May) suggests. Researchers in New York studied the diets of 1,219 people over 65 without dementia for an average of 1.2 years, looking [...]
Computer use combined with exercise could reduce risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment
Moderate exercise combined with mentally stimulating activities such as using a computer could decrease your risk of mild cognitive impairment according to research now published. The study, in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, involved 926 people in Olmsted County, Minnesota aged 70-93. Participants completed self reported questionnaires on physical exercise and computer use within one year prior to [...]
The government must respond to the care funding crisis
Alzheimer’s Society has today set out five areas that require urgent reform to end abuse in care homes. The call comes ahead of shocking footage to be shown on BBC’s Panorama tonight, which shows serious abuse of a vulnerable person with dementia at a care home previously rated excellent by the CQC. Andrew Chidgey, Director [...]
Dementia Diagnosis Rates Could Improve With New Drug
A new drug to detect beta amyloid – one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s – could help doctors to diagnose the disease earlier according to research presented today (Sunday 15 April 2012). The phase three study, which is being discussed at the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting, involved carrying out PET scans using the [...]
Dementia Is A Global Priority
Governments and policy makers across the world must make dementia a global public health priority, says a report published today (Wednesday, 11 April 2012) by the World Health Organisation and Alzheimer’s Disease International. ‘Dementia: A Public Health Priority’ looks at the impact of dementia across the world. It includes examples of best practise, as well [...]
People feel UK is unprepared for tackling dementia, says Alzheimer’s Society
Three quarters of people in the UK[1] feel that society is not geared up to deal with dementia according to a new report by Alzheimer’s Society published today (Monday, 26 March 2012). Dementia 2012: A National Challenge reflects the negative impact this is having on people with dementia. The report found that three in five [...]
David Cameron Announces £66m Funding To Fight Dementia
This morning David Cameron will announce an increase in funding to fight Dementia from £26.6m to £66m by 2015. Dementia currently affects 750,000 people in the UK. This is set to rise to 1 million by 2021. As part of David Camerons ‘National Challenge on Dementia’ henis expexted to comment; “One of the greatest challenges of [...]
Alzheimer’s Society Comment on Thomson Reuters Review of Research into Dementia
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters today (20 March 2012) announced findings that the quality of dementia research in the United Kingdom is second in the world only to the United States, despite the low number of scientists working in this field. The report, commissioned by Alzheimer’s Research UK, says that finding [...]
Tests Could Have Implications For Treating Alzheimer’s
Scientists testing on epilepsy patients have identified a ‘critical junction’ in the brain which is considered the doorway to the hippocampus, critical for the ability to transform daily experience into lasting memories. Scientists from UCLA believe that by stimulating the entorhinal cortex with electrical impulses memory was strengthened. The scientists believe the findings could have [...]
Cancer Drug Improves Symptoms Of Alzheimer’s In Mice
An existing cancer drug seems to improve many of the effects of Alzheimer’s disease in mice, a study published today (Thursday, 09 February) in the journal Science has found. Researchers in Ohio found the drug bexarotene was effective in increasing levels of the protein ApoE, which in turn sped up the clearance of [...]
Protect The Money Of Dementia Sufferers
People with dementia are being cheated out of at least £100 million, the Alzheimer’s Society revealed. The charity estimates that up to 112,500 (15 per cent) people with dementia have been victims of financial abuse such as cold calling, scam mail, or mis-selling. Its new report ‘Short changed: Protecting people with dementia from [...]
Health Select Committee Report-Alzheimers Society Comment
A new report published today (Wednesday, 8 February 2012) by the Health Select Committee is calling for greater integration of the existing fragmented health and social care services. The report, which follows the Committee’s enquiry into Social Care, also identifies the need to face the issue of the funding gap between the number [...]
Alzheimer’s Hallmark Could Affect Brain Function Of Healthy Adults
High levels of the protein amyloid beta in the brain – a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease – could also be associated with the memory and mental function of healthy adults according to a study published in Neurology today (Wednesday 1 February 2012). Scientists from the University of Texas took brain scans of 137 [...]
Care Sector Recruitment Set To Scale New Heights
A leading care sector recruitment consultancy is joining the fight against Alzheimer’s by attempting one of the UK’s most demanding endurance events. Health & Social Care Jobs, based in Leeds, are organising a group of participants to take part in the Yorkshire Three Peaks, a challenge that see’s walkers attempt to scale the [...]
Alzheimer’s Society Comments On ARUK Defeating Dementia
ARUK Defeating Dementia report: Alzheimer’s Society comment Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has challenged the government to commit to a national dementia research strategy. The charity’s new report, Defeating Dementia, warns that the UK’s world-renowned dementia knowledge base could be lost unless scientists have better opportunities to enter and remain in the field. [...]
Men More Likely To Develop Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) may affect more men than women research published in the journal Neurology claims. 1,450 people who had no signs of cognitive impairment were revaluated 15 months later. Men were 26% more likely to develop MCI than women, and 32% more likely to develop MCI with memory problems. The study [...]
Yorkshire Building Societies Biggest Ever Charity Donation!
Yorkshire Building Society has given £175,000 to its first ever charity of the year, Alzheimer’s Society. The total, which was raised through staff and member fundraising, is the biggest charitable donation ever made by the company. Throughout 2011 all Yorkshire, Barnsley and Chelsea building society staff and members pledged to raise money for [...]
Exercise Your Brain As Well As Your Body
The facts about Alzheimers; One in three people over 65 will die with dementia Alzheimer’s Society research shows that 750,000 people in the UK have a form of dementia, more than half have Alzheimer’s disease. In just ten years a million people will be living with dementia. This will soar to 1.7 million [...]
Nursing home residents with dementia could be at increased risk of falling due to antidepressants
Results published by the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (Thursday 19 January, 2012) show that antidepressants are associated with increased risk of falling in nursing home residents with dementia. The report by Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, states that nursing home residents with dementia who use average doses of Selective Serotonin Reuptake [...]
Alzheimer’s Society Brain Cell Bid
A research project designed to help develop new treatments to replace brain cells lost during dementia is being launched today (Wednesday) at Nottingham University. Alzheimer’s Society announced details of the search as the first in a series of research grants it has awarded, worth a total of £1.3 million. Lead Investigator Dr Virginie [...]
Virtual reality exercise games could be better for the brain than regular exercise
Computerised exercise games could have more cognitive benefits for older people than traditional exercise according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine today (Tuesday 17 January 2012). The New York-based research involved 63 adults aged 58-99 years old over two years. Scientists found that participants who used a ‘cybercycle’ [...]
Nicotine Improves Cognitive Ability, Says Study
Nicotine has been shown to improve cognitive performance in smokers who have stopped smoking according to a study published today in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Previous short-term studies with nicotine have shown attention and memory improvement in people with Alzheimer’s disease. This study looked the effects of [...]
Businesses aim to make Harrogate and Ripon Dementia Friendly
Alzheimer’s Society held a unique event in Harrogate on Thursday, 24 November to raise awareness of the National Dementia Declaration which calls on families, communities and organisations to improve the way in which society responds to dementia. Organised in conjunction with Carefound, a provider of home care services to the elderly in North Yorkshire, [...]
Cognitive Decline Can Begin From Age 45, Study Reveals-Alzheimers Society Comments
Cognitive function can start to decline from the age of 45, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal today (Thursday, 05 January). Researchers in France and the UK looked at 5,198 men and 2,192 women aged between 45 and 70 over a 10-year period from 1997. Participants’ cognitive functions including [...]
Alzheimer’s signs can be spotted ten years before symptoms appear, says study
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 research, which took place at Lund University, Sweden involved 140 people with Mild Cognitive Impairment. Spinal fluid was tested [...]
Alzheimer’s Society co-founder awarded MBE
One of the co-founders of Alzheimer’s Society has been awarded an MBE in the New Year honours list. Morella Kayman, who is now Vice President of the Society, helped set up the charity in 1979 following her husband’s diagnosis of dementia seven years earlier. At the time, dementia was a taboo subject and [...]
Growing crisis as charges for older people’s home care top £7,000
Growing crisis as charges for older people’s home care top £7,000 A new survey of care provided by local councils reveals shocking increases and wide disparities in charges for services for vulnerable older people. The survey, published today (Friday, 30 December 2011) by Labour, found that councils are increasing charges for vital services including [...]
Bromley Carer Re-United With Ruth Jones On Comic Relief
Bromley carer re-united with Ruth Jones tonight on BBC 1 at 10.30. Bromley carer Ron Lambert will be re-united with actress Ruth Jones on television tonight Wednesday 28th December during BBC One’s Comic Relief programme ‘What a Cracker’. Ruth met and stayed overnight with Ron, and his late wife Gladys, earlier [...]
Santander Smashes Fundraising Record For Alzheimer’s Society
Santander smashes fundraising record for Alzheimer’s Society Banking giant Santander raised a staggering £572,000 for Alzheimer’s Society through its 2011 charity of the year fundraising challenges. Staff at the company trekked up Mount Kilimanjaro, dressed up as Santa for fun runs, and took on countless individual challenges to raise the money. The [...]
Hospital staff do not feel they have enough training to care for people with dementia, says National Audit of Dementia
More than two thirds of hospital staff do not believe they have had sufficient training to deliver quality care to people with dementia, according to a report published today (Friday, 16 December 2011). The survey of over 2,000 hospital staff, which was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) and carried [...]
Frecheville Care Home Residents Visit Seaside In Their Own Lounge!
Residents at Brackenfield Hall care home in Frecheville this week took part in an afternoon activity in support of the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Awareness Week, a nationwide campaign happening in England from 3rd-9th July. The care home which offers quality residential care for 60 people, including 30 requiring specialist [...]
Take Dementia Seriously-
Dementia is joked about. We’re all guilty of it and yet worryingly 1 million of us will develop this disease over the next ten years. According to a poll on the website http://today.yougov.co.uk/life/taking-dementia-seriously Dementia is the most joked about medical condition according to an Alzheimer’s Society commissioned poll published today (Thursday, 7 [...]
Changing Crockery Improves Diet!
Can the colour of crockery really help residents with dementia? The answer is ‘yes’ and Susan Barber, manager of Meridian Healthcare’s Amber Lodge in Armley, Leeds agrees! Amber Lodge is a specialist care centre for older people who suffer from dementia related conditions. Susan commented, ‘I recently attended [...]
‘Relatives Rise To The Challenge Of Dementia Care’
Training for Dementia awareness run at local care home Berkeley Court care home in Leeds is making steps towards educating the local community about the challenges of living with dementia by providing training to relatives and interested parties in the Harehills based home. The first training session, which is accredited by the [...]
‘A Celebration of Success for Jewish Care’
Jewish Care is the largest health and social care charity for the UK’s Jewish community, caring directly for over 7,000 people every week; with 70 centres and specialist services throughout London and the South-East. The organisation provides a wide range of services for people who are elderly, mentally ill, physically disabled, visually [...]
Care Show Birmingham-A Must For Operators
Care Show Birmingham, taking place at the NEC on 22-23 June, is one of the largest displays of care home products and services in the region with more than 150 companies taking part in the exhibition. Catering for care home professionals; including proprietors, directors and managers of care homes, nursing homes, domiciliary [...]
