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More than 150,000 members of the public have signed a petition and over 50 health leaders have put their signatures to an open letter - calling on the new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, to urgently address

The UK Department of Health and Social Care said that the government is set to invest £250m in a new national artificial intelligence laboratory (AI lab) for the NHS to deliver enhanced healthcare through

Care staff and families need to be mindful they don’t fall into the trap of over-caring for people with dementia, warns dementia care expert, Anne Kelly. The dementia nurse believes people with care needs

She may be 80-years-old but Marjorie Scholes is beating adults almost half her age at gymnastics with body-bending stunts that defies the the odds against her, just proving age is just a number Gymnast

Care minister Caroline Dinenage is urging every care home to install WiFi! In 2016, the UN defined internet access as a human right, yet the survey which was carried out by 2,803 care home owners, managers

Charities are calling for action to stop “the biggest health crisis of our time” with dementia and Alzheimer’s now the leading cause of death in Britain. Some 69,478 deaths were caused by dementia and

UK experts said the results were promising - and a step towards a reliable blood test for Alzheimer's to speed up dementia research. But larger studies were needed first. Alzheimer's is the most common

Date Published: 02 Aug 2019 @ 17:04 PM Article By: Sue Learner Eighty-two-year-old Beryl Hunter was so moved by Richard Ratcliffe going on hunger strike in support of his wife Nazanin, she took a train

Date Published: 02 Aug 2019 @ 16:41 PM Article By: Michaela Chirgwin Increasingly, magic tables are being used in care homes to cognitively stimulate and engage care home residents with or without dementia,

Date Published: 29 Jul 2019 @ 14:42 PM Article By: Jill Rennie Colleagues from Millennium Care Group have raised £1,000 for Dementia UK after completing a fundraising challenge in Snowdonia National Park.

London's oldest man who cut the hair of Charlton Heston turns 108 Article By: Jill Rennie The oldest man in London and third oldest in the UK, who cut the hair of Charlton Heston and dyed the hair of the

Date Published: 25 Jul 2019 @ 16:33 PM Article By: Angeline Albert In Boris Johnson’s first speech in the House of Commons as Prime Minister, he told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to think of “the good of

Scientists are warning those who love spicy food to think twice before adding that extra dollop of chilli or jalapeno pepper to their meal, after research linked a spicy diet to dementia. Scientists from

Clad in a white space suit, man took his first tentative step out of the Apollo 11’s space capsule ‘Eagle’, accompanied by excited pensioners whose journey to the Moon saw them soar to the first floor

The care group Hft is urging the government to unleash the untapped potential of assistive technologies by creating a ‘sector deal’ to help those with learning disabilities. William, who has autism, helped

The government has announced £135m for an NHS partnership with universities, innovators and local authorities, in a bid to solve some of the biggest issues facing health and social care over the next five

Impossible puzzles that mimic the experience of someone with dementia have been created to frustrate the public and highlight how people with the condition can feel ‘set up to fail’. One of the five puzzles

Scientists have found that apathy in people with dementia is ‘often ignored’ in care homes, due to it being less disruptive than other symptoms such as aggression. The researchers from Exeter University,

A Flexible Working Bill seeking to demand all jobs be advertised as flexible from day one of employment, was approved to go to a second reading on 17 July – prompting delight amongst parents, people with