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Navigating the Frontiers of Dementia: ADI Conference 2024
The 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International took place in Kraków, Poland, last week. Experts around the world came together under the theme of ‘Dementia: Insights. Innovations. Inspirations’ and shared information on achievements, innovations, and best practices in dementia research, care, and policy.
DSDC Senior Dementia Consultant, Dave Wilson-Wynne, attended and represented the University of Stirling and our Centre. Here is what he said about the experience:
Stress and Dementia Care
We all experience stress. It is the same experience for a person living with dementia as it is for a person without. Here are four strategies that you as a carer, informal or professional, can use to mitigate stress in a person living with dementia:
Nurolight®: sleep, light and dementia
For 18 months our DSDC researchers explored sleep, light and dementia. Our project Nurolight® assessed bright Light therapy – a form of using artificial light to retrain the natural
We asseused sers subjective visual comfort levels using a variety of different lighting conditions with varying levels of illuminance.
New training courses launched at DSDC
Over the past few months, DSDC has used its reputation and connections to develop three new training courses. The aim is to shape the practice, knowledge, and confidence of participants. This will help us in our continued mission to improve and sustain the quality-of-life for people living with dementia and their wider support networks.
Bowbrook Dementia Specialist Residential Care Home Achieves DSDC Gold Award for Dementia-Friendly Design
We are all stakeholders in ageing – especially as people live longer. In a remarkable step towards a more dementia-friendly society, Bowbrook Residential Care Home has achieved the DSDC Gold Award.
Here are five reasons why Bowbrook is at the forefront of dementia-friendly design: