Caroline Green discusses a qualitative study which considers the effects of COVID-19 on social support services for people with dementia.
[read the full story...]Allowing visitors back into nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
Clarissa Giebel reviews a mixed-methods Dutch study and accompanying guidance, which recommends a safe way to allow visitors back into nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
[read the full story...]Dog therapy for dementia: can fluffy friends help with thinking and memory problems?
Clare Dolan and Sarah Gregory summarise a recent systematic review on the effectiveness of dog therapy for people living with dementia, which suggests that animal assisted therapy may be a useful complementary treatment to help with the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.
[read the full story...]A care home innovation programme to reduce hospital admissions through COVID-19 lens
Liz Sampson reviews a recent 4-year evaluation of the Care Home Innovation Programme (CHIP) aiming to reduce hospital admissions in older care home residents.
[read the full story...]Dementia care: what increases caregiver burden?
Eleana Frisira writes her debut blog on a recent 3-year longitudinal study exploring the burden that falls on caregivers of people with various types of dementia.
[read the full story...]A review of Dementia Friendly Communities in England
Remco Tuijt writes his debut blog and summarises a recent scoping study on dementia friendly communities in England: what they are and what they want to achieve.
[read the full story...]Survivors of genocide more likely to develop dementia, according to new Israeli study
Anna Sri explores a recent Israeli study which suggests that people exposed to genocide are more likely to develop dementia, even when a range of confounders are accounted for.
[read the full story...]STrAtegies for RelaTives (START): long-lasting effect on the wellbeing of family carers of dementia patients
A group of UCL Mental Health MSc students summarise a recent RCT assessing the clinical and cost-effectiveness over 6 years of the START intervention for family carers of people with dementia.
[read the full story...]Personalised medicine: a transformative era in dementia research
Nagina Khan writes her debut elf blog on a recent study in the British Journal of Psychiatry about the individual course of neuropsychiatric symptoms in people with Alzheimer’s and Lewy body dementia.
[read the full story...]Too much TV is associated with decline in verbal memory
Sarah Gregory summarises findings from a large dataset analysis which explores the relationship between watching television and later cognitive decline.
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