The Alzheimer’s Society has announced their Accelerator and Launchpad partners for 2026.

The Accelerator and Launchpad programmes are designed to support innovative products and solutions that address challenges people with dementia experience. Accelerator partners have investment and business support for 12 months to help progress their innovations, whilst Launchpa...

A study has been published by the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) exploring the use of restrictive practices in the everyday care of people living with dementia in English hospitals.

Researchers from the University of West London analysed 225 days of ethnographic observation across nine NHS wards in England alongside more than 1,000 interviews...

Unpaid carers of people with a rarer dementia are wanted for a research study being conducted by Charlotte Marsden at the University of Liverpool.

Charlotte is looking to find out if a diagnosis of a rarer dementia was delayed by another diagnosis. It’s known that rarer dementias can be challenging to diagnose and the associated delays can result in additional distr...

A study published in JAMA Network Open has suggested that detecting a blood-based biomarker could predict the risk of dementia in women up to 25 years before symptoms begin.

The study, conducted by researchers from the University of California San Diego, showed that higher levels of p-tau217 (a protein linked to the brain changes seen in Alzheimer’s disease) in wome...

The Sam Beckman Choir, a dementia choir in North London, has written, composed and professionally recorded an original song that they’ve released as a single entitled ‘A new beginning’.

The choir worked with music and healthcare practitioner Edmund Jeffrey for a year to create their song during their weekly music sessions. All of the choir members live with dementia...