Learning Disability Week – improving hospital care
This week is learning disability week and the focus in on how people with learning disabilities are treated when they are in hospital.
Dementia
Dementia Action Week: Dementia and diet in the news
This week is Dementia Action Week – an important time to raise awareness of dementia, a progressive and ultimately fatal disease that many people have been touched by in some shape or form. Around 850,000 people are living with dementia …
Dementia: do you know how to reduce your risk?
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Elaine Rashbrook and Charles Alessi, Posted on:
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Dementia, Health and Wellbeing
It may be surprising to hear that the disease most feared by people aged over 55 in the UK is dementia – ahead of cancer, heart attack and stroke. With symptoms including memory loss and difficulties with thinking or language, …
Dementia and the importance of local data
The Alzheimer’s Society estimates that in 2013 the number of people with dementia in England was 686,000. Without public health intervention this has been forecast to increase by 40% by 2025. Dementia may be affecting 108,700 people in the country …
Dementia Carers – Susan’s Story
There are around 550,000 dementia carers in the UK. And it is estimated that 1 in 3 people will care for someone with dementia in their lifetime. Dementia carers are the single most important player in the dementia world. They …
Dementia Awareness Week 2015: Add life to your years and years to your life
This week is Dementia Awareness Week; a welcome opportunity for us at PHE to share what we know about dementia, that it affects over 800,000 people in the UK, and to highlight what we can all do as individuals to reduce …
Getting by with a little help from our friends
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Dementia, Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease
Those of you watching your TV tonight won't be able to miss our new advert marking the launch of a new national campaign on Dementia Friends as it gets broadcast across 40 channels simultaneously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfrnWrpPq54 At the centre of the advert is …
Promoting brain health: preventing and delaying dementia
Earlier this week Sally Warren blogged about how we can support personal and community-level action to help people live well with dementia. I want to consider how we can reduce the risk of developing dementia in the first place. I …
Living well with dementia
“I find it difficult to work out what the time is, and that’s particularly useful when I'm fishing” Peter Dunlop's opening to the G8 dementia summit was powerful not only for describing the challenges he and his family have faced, …