The BBC has curated seven days of content across their TV, Radio, iPlayer, Sounds and Online platforms to shine a spotlight on unpaid carers. ‘Caring Matters’, which ran from Saturday 23rd May until Saturday 30 May 2026, shared different perspectives on caring and included advice from experts, information on navigating support, and reflections from people…
The National Activity Providers Association (NAPA) has opened nominations for their National Activity Awards, which will take place in Liverpool on Friday 22nd January 2027. There are 16 categories, and the NAPA Awards are open to services and professionals working across the adult health, housing and social care sectors in the UK. NAPA say: “Every…
A grass roots campaign, ‘Care about Care’, has been launched by Providers Unite (who we reported on here: https://journalofdementiacare.co.uk/?s=Providers+Unite). Care about Care is calling on the UK Government to reinvent how the social care system is viewed, supported and funded. The organisers of the campaign say: “We are campaigning to make politicians sit up and…
A survey has been launched to gather the views of people with personal and professional experiences of digital technologies in care. The survey is being run by The Digital Care and Innovation theme at the Centre for Care, who have set up a Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) with people who have lived experience of care…
A resource pack to support shared reading for people with dementia has been launched by Queen’s University Belfast and Dementia NI. The resource pack is designed to help individuals and organisations to set up and facilitate shared reading groups tailored to people living with dementia. Typically, these reading groups would involve reading a short story…
Care England, in partnership with PLMR (a PR and Public Affairs agency), has published a report entitled ‘The Power of Care: the system behind our society’. The report looks at the role of social care, the challenges the sector is facing, and how to create the right conditions for consistent, high-quality social care. It includes…
The Yorkshire Soap Company has collaborated with residents at Anchor’s Springfield Care Home to create a dementia support soap collection. The packaging for the collection, which is being promoted as ‘Inspired by memory, made with love’, features hand-drawn designs created and chosen by Springfield Care Home residents who have enjoyed months of art classes to…
Dementia UK has published the programme for their 2026 Summer School. Running from 7-10 July 2026, the Summer School is a free annual event aimed at improving practice in and knowledge of dementia care. Topics being covered in 2026 are diverse and include rarer types of dementia, Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia, supporting people from…
The Alzheimer’s Society has published reports entitled ‘Unlocking the door to diagnosis’ and ‘Unlocking the door to treatment’. The reports, which the Alzheimer’s Society describe as a ‘one of a kind analysis’ include Alzheimer’s Society research, clinical perspectives and data, and insight from people with lived experience of dementia. The reports document how people diagnosed…
The Association for Dementia Studies (ADS) at the University of Worcester has launched surveys to explore dementia in the haulage industry. ADS are hoping to carry out a project exploring issues such as: Participants are being sought who are: The survey links are as follows: