‘My Family - Not the sitcom’ is a hugely ‘disrespectful celebration’ of the lives of comic David Baddiel’s father Colin, who has a rare form of dementia, and his late mother Sarah.
'Calling up their weirdnesses'
David Baddiel's one-man West End show ‘My... Read more
A new £816m investment, the largest ever in NHS and health research, will see dementia research funding increase to more than £45m from 1 April 2017.
Funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has been awarded to twenty leading NHS clinicians and... Read more
Viral singing sensation Teddy Mac, or 'The Songaminute Man', as he is more commonly known, is celebrating after seeing his first ever single reach the charts.
The cover of the Frank Sinatra classic 'You Make Me Feel So Young' made it to number three in the iTunes chart... Read more
Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised to deliver 25 per cent more training posts for the UK’s medical students to make Britain a more ‘self-sufficient’ country.
In a speech at the Conservative Party conference on 4 October, Mr Hunt said he plans to create 1,500... Read more
Terry Jones, famous for directing and starring in the Monty Python films, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia - a severe form of dementia affecting one's ability to speak.
The 74-year-old is “no longer able to... Read more
As the number of older people continues to grow, the demand for health and care services is increasing.
Despite the increasing number of older people living in the UK with one or more long-term health conditions, not all older people require regular home care, and an... Read more
A Lithuanian woman who beat thousands of carers to become a home care firm's ‘Carer of the Year’, says looking after her ill grandmother at home gave her the confidence to work in social care.
At the age of 12, Egidija Indrasuite was living in her home town of... Read more
Two in three people with MS in the UK live in an area where there is a stark shortage of specialist nurses, a new report published by the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Trust this month has revealed.
MS specialist nurses (MSSNs) provide vital specialist care and information... Read more
Home care provider Care By Us has achieved an Outstanding rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for its efforts to accelerate older people’s safe discharge from hospital.
The CQC report, published on 9 September, found the team had established a hospital... Read more
The Alzheimer’s Society has condemned the ‘shameful inequality’ between those with dementia and those without, as a report reveals those with the illness rarely have the chance to die in their own home.
An investigation carried out by the National Dementia... Read more
Jenny Chapman has 17 years of professional experience caring for people with mental and physical disabilities, older people, those who are frail and those living with health conditions such as dementia.
She has seen first-hand how individual care can make all the... Read more
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