Association for Dementia Studies Blog

We like to hear about what our students have done since completing training and education courses with us to celebrate their achievements, but it’s not always easy to find out what’s been going on. So, we thought we’d let you know about a few opportunities:

This week we hand over to Dáithí C., a trans/nonbinary person living with dementia, to hear their experiences during Pride Month.

In 1974, I came out into a world that did not particularly want people like me to exist.

The language was ...

As we rapidly approach halfway through the year (how did that happen?), it felt about time to give a quick round up of some of the things that have been going on recently that we haven’t already talked about in previous blogs.

In the past few weeks we’ve had two new articles published.

Our ‘Dementia friendly parks’ project is moving forward at a pace and has just got the next exciting phase underway. We’ve now developed a draft environmental self-assessment tool and accompanying guide, and recently held a briefing session to get a...

This week we hand over to Senior Lecturer Dr Catrin Hedd Jones to hear about some of the activities that took place during Dementia Action Week…

Sometimes it is the simple conversations, those moments of sharing, listening, and reflecting that make ...