In this audio clip, Professor Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia, talks to Richard Gleave, Director of Programmes and Patient Experience at NHS South of England, about the NHS South of England dementia challenge meeting on 29 May and the increasing interest in dementia as an issue. Read more »
Dr Nigel Watson talks with Alistair Burns about the key elements of good dementia care. Read more »
Alistair Burns caught up with Dr Nigel Watson, a GP, at the NHS South of England Dementia Challenge Conference on 29 May. Listen to the audio clip where they talk about the key elements of good dementia care. Read more »
Details of a major conference in Reading on May 29th 2012 to progress the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy in the South of England, building on the Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge. Read more »
Richard Gleave, Director of Programmes and Patient Experience at NHS South of England, talks to Alistair Burns about the NHS South of England dementia challenge meeting on 29 May 2012. Read more »
The May 2012 edition of the Brain Waves newsletter, produced by Innovations in Dementia, features Developing dementia friendly communities and the Dementia friendly communities toolkit. Read more »
Prime Minister David Cameron has met with the dementia friendly communities champion group in London. The group is one of three champion groups set up as part of the dementia challenge to explore how to deliver its key aims of creating dementia friendly communities, improving dementia research and improving health and care. Read more »
Friends of the McNamara Centre are in the process of searching for a plot of land in the Plymouth area that can be transformed into a sensory garden and allotment dedicated to ‘Planting Memories’ for generations to come. Read more »
Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia , interviews Pat Jones-Greenhalgh, Executive Director of Adult Social Services in Bury, about raising awareness of dementia at a tea dance held in Bury on 23 May 2012. Read more »
Dementia awareness week, May 201221-27 May 2012 is Dementia Awareness Week. It is a great opportunity to increase understanding of dementia and to get people to remember that there’s more to a person than the dementia. As part of the week the Alzheimer’s Society have created the video ‘Five things you should know about dementia’. Read more »