Dementia Community

Our next webinar is tomorrow.
Last chance to register. Sign up closes at midnight tonight.

Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2 to 3pm (UK time)
Speaker: Alison Keizer

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One of the Editor’s Picks from the latest Journal of Dementia Care

We’re highlighting “Dementia Diaries: A farewell to a family of voices” by Steve Milton, who helped run the Dementia Diaries project with Rachel Niblock from its launch in 2015.

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Only five days to go.
Join us for our next free webinar:

Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2–3pm (UK time)

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The new issue of the Journal of Dementia Care is now out - and completely free to read!

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This special November/December edition focuses on technology in dementia care.

Free online webinar. Two weeks to go!

Seeking a Young Onset Dementia Diagnosis
15th Dec · 2-3pm

The Young People w/ Dementia Team will share how they support people w/ young onset dementia.

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Our next free webinar is now just 10 days away.
Delirium & Dementia: Recognising, Responding, and Supporting Together
Monday, 8 December, 2–3pm (UK time)

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NAPA have put together a really strong piece on #UKDC2025. It captures the main discussions, the practical ideas shared, and the thoughtful contributions from across the sector.

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Yesterday’s webinar, Where are the books for people living with dementia?, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel:
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We’re excited to be exhibiting at the NAPA National Activity Conference 2026 in Liverpool on 23rd January!

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The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed £21m for the continuation of the ‘Better Security, Better Care’ programme. 

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The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced that they will launch a consultation on Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) in the first half of 2026. 

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It’s been announced that the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance (EDAA) will formally close at the end of December 2025.

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The University of Tasmania Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre has launched an updated version of their ‘Understanding Dementia’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

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Alive, a charity providing a range of life-enhancing activities for older people, has published their Impact Report for 2024-2025.

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A new study - The Auditory Biomarkers of Healthy Ageing and Alzheimer’s Disease (ABHAD) study is investigating the link between hearing loss and Alzheimer’s disease.

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The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has published a report entitled: ‘Caring about Health’. 

The report looks at the health outcomes of adults using social care services and how the system can have a more active role in health improvement.

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Thank you to everyone who helped make Day 2 of #UKDC2025 such a good one. Delegates, speakers, partners, sponsors, lived experience supporters and exhibitors all brought so much to the day. Safe travels home.

What was the moment you will remember most?

“Behavioural expressions of need” is the preferred term put forward by the Advisory Group for the Psychology of Ageing Network to replace phrases like “behaviour that challenges” and BPSD. This was highlighted by psychologists at the end of Parallel Session 6.1. Worth keeping in mind going forward.

Parallel Session 6.3 included a powerful presentation from Hannah Gardner on specialist nursing support for children and young people who have a parent with young onset dementia.

Parallel Session 6.1 looked at responding to stress and distress in care homes. Amy Pepper shared the impact of non-pharmacological approaches on reducing distress and improving wellbeing. A steady and practical session with ideas people can use. #UKDC2025

Parallel Session 6.4 explored creativity, co-production and living creatively with dementia. Ronald Amanze and David Truswell shared honest reflections and real examples from their work and lived experience.

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Parallel Session 6.2 explored quality of life in advanced dementia. Dr Allan Perry’s talk on holistic care and the Well-being in Dementia Inventory offered a clear way of thinking about what really matters for people in later stages.

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Karan Jutlla from the University of Wolverhampton presenting on involving local minority ethnic communities in designing better dementia support. A real focus on understanding communities and working with people’s lived experience.

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“I love a robot and doubtless I will be in love with a robot at some point in my life.”
- Vic Rayner, sharing her robot friends with the audience this afternoon

Steady on, Vic!

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Jude Sweeting opens Parallel Session 5.1 on Challenges and successes in social care and dementia care today.

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The lunch-time session in the Auditorium is now underway. It’s a celebration of The Creative Dementia Practice Handbook - Arts for Health and Wellbeing, led by co-editors Maria Pasiecznik Parsons and Richard Coaten, with a poem by Ronald Amanze and dance by the Balbir Singh Dance Company.

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Mini-presentation Session 3: Community, Diagnosis and Support, Family Carers.

For anyone who would like to look back at the presentations from this session, they are permanently available on our YouTube channel here: buff.ly/57pCFfg

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Emma Smith (Age UK Salford and Trafford) and Lorna Hart-Thomson (Meeting Centres Scotland) get the room talking about dementia in UK prisons.

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Rosie Dunn from the University of West London shared the FIND ME project, co-developing guidelines to better involve family carers in dementia care in mental health inpatient wards.

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A full house for Parallel 4.4 in the Charles Hallé Room, with the Institute for Health and Care Improvement and York St John University delivering a powerful Academic Partner session.

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