Dementia Activity App Celebrates 10-year Anniversary
A museum-led dementia awareness programme, House of Memories, is marking 10 years since its memory activity app launched at the House of Commons. The free My House of Memories app, co-created with people living with dementia, was launched two years after the creation of the wider House of Memories programme, which is led by National Museums Liverpool. The aim of the app is to develop connections and conversations between people living with dementia and their families and carers, through digital collections of objects. Together, people can explore pictures of museum objects and everyday items – which range from a Singer …
Dementia Activity App Celebrates 10-year Anniversary
A museum-led dementia awareness programme, House of Memories, is marking 10 years since its memory activity app launched at the House of Commons. The free My House of Memories app, co-created with people living with dementia, was launched two years after the creation of the wider House of Memories programme, which is led by National Museums Liverpool. The aim of the app is to develop connections and conversations between people living with dementia and their families and carers, through digital collections of objects. Together, people can explore pictures of museum objects and everyday items – which range from a Singer …
Dementia Prevention Through Lifestyle Medicine
Prevention Journeys is the first UK consulting company helping memory clinics and GP practices integrate dementia prevention services into their clinical journeys. Dr Liana Borza – Founder of Prevention Journeys Ltd will be presenting a talk entitled Dementia Prevention through Lifestyle Medicine at The Alzheimer’s & Dementia Show, 15:25 – 15:45, 14 Jun 2024 at ExCeL London. This talk is about dementia risk factors and how to reduce them through multidomain lifestyle interventions. Liana has extensive experience as Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry and Clinical Lead in NHS England and private UK memory clinic settings. She co-authored a book on …
NHS Given Mixed Bill Of Health In New Study Of International Healthcare Systems
The NHS is “neither a leader nor a laggard” when compared to healthcare systems of similar countries, though on some critical measures of resources and performance the UK is falling well-below average, according to a major new report from The King’s Fund. The analysis of healthcare systems in 19 different countries finds that the NHS offers people good protection from the potentially catastrophic costs of ill health. The researchers also found that the UK health service is amongst the most efficiently run healthcare systems, for example by spending relatively little budget on administration and keeping medicines costs low. But the …
