Latest news

• 7 new developments in dementia research in 2019
  20/03/20

  As a roundup of last year, here are seven dementia research highlights.

• Dementia-Friendly Design Tools
  20/03/20

  The King's Fund dementia friendly environmental assessment tools for wards, hospitals, care homes, housing and health centres.

• The 'Dementia Moonshot'
  20/03/20

  What is Alzheimer's Society calling for?

• Dementia Statements: Through a legal lens
  20/03/20

  NDAA practical advice and guidance on implementation for practitioners and those who care for people living with dementia.

• Making decisions about research on behalf of people living with dementia
  20/03/20

  British Geriactrics Society article

• Workshops for managing transfers of care
  20/03/20

  Free LGA workshops

• Arranging and paying for training in positive behavioural support
  20/03/20

  Skills for Care has updated its guide for people involved in designing, delivering and/or commissioning positive behavioural support (PBS) training in adult social care organisations.

• Harnessing the power of social care data
  20/03/20

  Discover how Councils across the country are using data collaboratively to minimise risk and encourage sustainability of service

• ICO has updated its Brexit FAQs
  20/03/20

• The age-friendly workplace: mental health and wellbeing
  20/03/20

  Aideen Young, shares her thoughts on the specific challenges faced by older workers, and how employers can support their wellbeing.

• #IAmConfident campaign
  20/03/20

  Department for Work and Pensions campaign to promote Disability Confident

• Guidance on employing workers aged 16 and 17
  20/03/20

  It’s both legal and beneficial to employ young people (aged 16 and 17), in social care services, including home care and community-based services. 

• Changes and Challenges: Employee Engagement in the Third Sector
  20/03/20

  Agenda Consulting conducted an analysis of the employee engagement surveys of 29 Third Sector organisations undertaken by Agenda Consulting in 2017, 2018 and 2019. 

• Shared perspectives on cohousing – codesigning community
  20/03/20

  Jan Chadwick, of K1 Cohousing, and Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects, shares the challenges they in designing Marmalade Lane, Orchard Park in Cambridge, and some of the lessons they have learned. 

• Code of Practice for the housing sector
  20/03/20

  The British Standards Institute and the Alzheimer’s Society have developed a Code of Practice for the housing sector.

• Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) - new report
  20/03/20

  Voluntary Organisations Disability Group (VODG) has published a new report that calls for a fresh approach to the strategic commissioning of disability services in order to strengthen relationships between statutory bodies and voluntary sector organisations so that positive outcomes for disabled people can be achieved. 

• Supporting adult carers
  20/03/20

  This NICE guideline covers support for adults (aged 18 and over) who provide unpaid care for anyone aged 16 or over with health or social care needs. 

• #ShareThatYouCare
  20/03/20

  This short film highlights the impact that caring can have on people’s lives, and how talking can help.

• Updated NAPA training and support guide
  20/03/20

  The updated NAPA training and support guide is now available.

• Music Mirrors: capturing the sounds of memories
  20/03/20

  Music Mirrors is a digital compilation of sounds or music – linked to YouTube – bringing together individual words and phrases that are habitually used by a person.