Dementia making the headlines isn’t anything new and today’s make for fairly depressing, albeit highly predictable, reading. Anyone currently involved in dementia care in the UK, be that as a person with dementia, a family member supporting/caring for a person…
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Wellbeing and dementia
‘Wellbeing’ is everywhere these days. Health and social care professionals are eulogising about it and it now has an important place in legislation, with the Care Act featuring wellbeing prominently. But what exactly is it, and how do we enable…
Focus on carers
Today sees the start of the annual Carers Week, an important campaign to help raise the profile and needs of carers in the UK and celebrate the vital contribution they make to society. This year’s theme is ‘Carer Friendly Communities’,…
What makes a good care plan?
One of the main dementia-related ambitions for the five years of this current parliament is around care planning. Finally we seem to be moving on from the preoccupation with diagnosis rates and the focus is moving towards post-diagnostic support, something I…
Do something new… and celebrate
Welcome to the last of my seven blog posts for UK Dementia Awareness Week 2015. This year’s Dementia Awareness Week centres around the theme of doing something new for people with dementia, under the mantra that ‘Life doesn’t have to end when dementia begins’.…
