Admiral Nurses Anna Chadwick and Sheridan Coker, of the Mid Cheshire Foundation NHS Trust, were recently awarded by the hospital for their Outstanding ...
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Mouth care for people with dementia
Maintaining good oral health is essential to your overall well-being. Daily preventative care can help stop problems like painful cavities and infections before...
Read moreMusic therapy
Music and emotion are linked in a powerful way. People respond to music from a very early age, before words and language are developed, and this continues even ...
Read moreAdmiral Nurses take on a 1,000 mile challenge for Dementia UK
Admiral Nurses Jayne and Julie both work for the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust and have taken on a massive challenge for 2017; to walk ...
Read moreInternational Nurses’ Day
Every year on 12th May, on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, people join together to celebrate International Nurses’ Day. Here at Dementia UK we thought ...
Read moreAromatherapy
Aromatherapy is the use of aromatic plant or essential oils to promote wellbeing through scent. Like any complementary therapy, it is not a replacement for ...
Read moreSundowning – changes in behaviour at dusk
Sundowning is a term used about the changes in behaviour that occur in the evening, around dusk. Some people who have been diagnosed with dementia experience a ...
Read moreThe use of dolls in dementia care
The use of dolls can bring great benefit to some people with a diagnosis of dementia, particularly those in later stages. It involves making a doll available to...
Read moreTaking on the London Marathon for families facing dementia
When we took on our first parkrun back in October neither of us had much faith that we’d complete the London Marathon six months later. But here we are, ...
Read moreSpeak to an Admiral Nurse at The Alzheimer’s Show
Our nurses will be running the popular 1-2-1 advice clinics at The Alzheimer’s Show in London on 9th and 10th June and EventCity Manchester on 23rd and 24th ...
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