The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) recently announced the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a voluntary test program designed to benefit people living with dementia ...
Music is a medicine of sorts. It can lower distress in people with dementia, a new study finds. The Nov. 14 study in Nature Mental Health showed the perks of music therapy, explains how music can ...
The HICM offers an approach to support health and care systems to deliver best practice, highlighting the changes in practice that will result in better outcomes for people living with dementia.
DemTalk is a free online toolkit that gives guidance on communication with people living with dementia. Different versions of the toolkit have been developed for family members, carers, and health and ...
DiADeM is a tool to support GPs in diagnosing dementia for people living with advanced dementia in a care home setting. It has been developed by the Yorkshire and Humber Dementia Strategic Clinical ...
Nurse Linda Hodgkinson said the garden had become a valuable space for people living with dementia A sensory garden tucked away inside the grounds of a city hospital has become an important refuge ...
And dementia risk only increases as we get older: Thirty-five percent of people over the age of 90 are living with dementia. The condition isn’t entirely preventable — age, genetics ...
You might already know that exposure to extreme weather conditions ― both very hot and very cold ― has been associated with increased dementia risk over time. With five amber and yellow snow and/or ...
Dementia UK is hosting the face to face clinics to discuss everything you need to know about the illness, from how dementia progresses to help with financial and legal issues. Previously the ...