Dementias Online 2021 – 9th & 10th March 2021
www.dementiasconference.com/dementias-online Date: 9th & 10th March 2021 Event Description In addition to the Dementias Conference taking...
Posted 17/02/2021
COVID blog #12: National Informal Caregivers Day: Family involvement in long-term care facilities is essential
On November 10th, it was National Informal Caregivers Day, a Dutch initiative of ‘MantelzorgNL’ to put people that care for someone else all year...
Posted 29/01/2021
Article of the month – December 2020
The website committee has chosen the following article as publication of the month December: Du B, Lakshminarayanan M, Krishna M, Vaitheswaran S...
Posted 12/01/2021
My passion for dementia research
My research area My research area has been about developing and testing interventions (care practices, services or training) to improve the...
Posted 22/12/2020
Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) for Realising Practice Change – Online Course
Summary: The Centre for Applied Dementia Studies is now offering the award winning DCM training online Content: The Centre for Applied Dementia...
Posted 15/12/2020
Covid blog #11 vaccination: what to do with people with dementia in nursing homes?
Now the first vaccinations are up for approval, countries are starting to roll this out with the United Kingdom as the first...
Posted 14/12/2020
Impression INTERDEM Meeting virtual Alzheimer Europe Conference
We were very fortunate that the Alzheimer Europe Conference was still taking place despite the huge amount of changes we have to deal with in the...
Posted 09/12/2020
Dealing with Dementia – 2nd Krems Dementia Conference
Like all conferences since March this year this conference went virtual. Very pity as many attendees were looking forward to visiting the...
Posted 29/11/2020
Article of the month – October 2020
“Development of best practice recommendations to enhance access to and use of formal community care services for people with dementia in...
Posted 23/11/2020
Book “Wandering the Wards” now launched and freely available
On Tuesday 17thNovember 2020, the book “Wandering the Wards” has been launched in which Featherstone and Northcott provide a detailed and...
Posted 19/11/2020
Alzheimer Europe Conference 2020: COVID19, technological solutions, and attendee’s houseplants
Initially, I worried that a 3-day online conference might lead to ‘Zoom-fatigue’ and that the virtual format would negatively impact the special...
Posted 18/11/2020
COVID BLOG #10: Impact of SARS-COV-2 pandemic on mental health of Long-term Care Facility Personnel in Poland – recommendations
Extraordinary concerns and considerable challenges for public health due to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic aroused interest of researchers around the world...
Posted 12/11/2020