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Dementia-Friendly Extra Care Housing: a Compendium of Best Practice (Housing LIN)

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A Housing Learning and Improvement Network report provides a compendium of case studies illustrating good practice in extra care housing schemes and other housing-related community-based services. The focus is on supporting people with dementia to maintain meaningful relationships and … Continue reading →

Exploring Lived Space as Experienced by Persons With Dementia (BMC Geriatrics)

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A systematic meta-synthesis concerning the broad topic of the experience(s) of space (whether physical, social or existential) on the part of persons living with dementia has identified four domains in the experience of “lived space”: (i) belonging (ii) meaningfulness … Continue reading →

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Novel Approaches to Understanding Creativity and Artistic Appreciation in Dementia (BBC News / Wellcome Open Research)

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Created Out of Mind initiative comprises scientists, artists, musicians and writers, based at the Wellcome Collection’s “The Hub”, who are engaged in exploring the varied influences of dementia on the whole range of human creativity (and vice versa). … Continue reading →

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Exploring the Value and Benefits of Music for People With Dementia (ILC-UK / Commission on Dementia and Music)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A report from the International Longevity Centre UK covers the potential roles of therapeutic music services, and digital music streaming technologies, for people living with dementia. “If music publishers and streaming platforms could make music available for free or … Continue reading →

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Recommendations For Cognitively Stimulating Activities to Promote Lasting Brain Health (BBC News / GCBH)

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Global Council on Brain Health (GCBH) has released a report which summarises evidence-based recommendations for the public on adopting cognitively stimulating activities which may help to minimise cognitive decline. Brain training games appear to provide few of the … Continue reading →

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Cognitive Health In Older Adults: Changing Unhealthy Lifestyles and Reducing Risk Factors (PHE)

Posted on November 28, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Public Health England (PHE) and the Cambridge Institute of Public Health have produced a summary of reviews which offer evidence to support the commissioning of interventions concerning a range of modifiable lifestyle risk factors / unhealthy behaviours in older … Continue reading →

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The Dementia Citizens Project (Knowledge Hub / Nesta)

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta) has launched the Dementia Citizens website. This project aims to bring together researchers and people with dementia (and their carers and families) with a view to discovering novel ways … Continue reading →

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Qualitative Research Into Spiritual Care for Persons With Dementia in Nursing Homes (BMC Nursing)

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Nurses’ and care workers’ experiences in the provision of spiritual care for people with dementia living in Norwegian nursing homes were explored, based on interviews following a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to analysis. Participants were unsure about spiritual care in many … Continue reading →

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Exploring Applications of the Appreciative Inquiry Methodology (JCN / Open Nursing Journal / BMC Nursing / Dementia)

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a qualitative research methodology which has roots in action research, organisational learning and organisational culture change. Articles have been published recently which incorporate appreciative inquiry in their approach to various healthcare topics of interest. Exploring … Continue reading →

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Loneliness in Old Age: Male Perspectives (BBC News / ILC-UK / Independent Age)

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Increasing numbers of men face loneliness and isolation in old age, according to research by the International Longevity Centre (ILC-UK) and Independent Age. While older women are likely to remain more likely to outlive their husbands, it is also … Continue reading →

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