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Improving life for care home residents with dementia: audio with Paul Mancey and Alistair Burns

Anna Hepburn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:31:33 +0000

Paul Mancey, chief executive of Orchard Care Homes, talks to Alistair Burns about work to improve the quality of life of residents with dementia, including an Alzheimer’s Society training programme for staff.

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Early diagnosis: audio with Martin Freeman and Alistair Burns

Anna Hepburn — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:16:24 +0000

In this short audio clip, Martin Freeman, regional lead on dementia in the South West of England, talks to National Clinical Director for Dementia Alistair Burns about the importance of early diagnosis.

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Alistair Burns talks to Clive Ballard about dementia research

Anna Hepburn — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:52:01 +0000

In this audio clip, recorded on 8 June with Big Ben striking in the background, Alistair Burns speaks to Clive Ballard, Director of Research at the Alzheimer’s Society, about the current focus on dementia research.

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Karim Saad talks about work on dementia in the West Midlands

Anna Hepburn — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:05:13 +0000

In this audio clip, Alistair Burns talks to Dr Karim Saad, Dementia Lead in the West Midlands, about work on dementia in the region. The interview was recorded on 31 May at a meeting in the West Midlands about dementia care in the community.

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Richard Gleave talks about the increasing interest in dementia

Anna Hepburn — Thu, 31 May 2012 08:56:40 +0000

In this audio clip, Director of Programmes and Patient Experience at NHS South of England, Richard Gleave, talks to Alistair Burns about the NHS South of England dementia challenge meeting on 29 May and the increasing interest in dementia as an issue.

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Alistair Burns talks to Nigel Watson about good dementia care

Anna Hepburn — Wed, 30 May 2012 07:52:18 +0000

Alistair Burns caught up with Dr Nigel Watson, a GP, at the NHS South of England Dementia Challenge Conference on 29 May. Listen to the audio clip where they talk about the key elements of good dementia care.

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Alistair Burns interviews Pat Jones-Greenhalgh at Dementia Awareness Week tea dance

Anna Hepburn — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:19:17 +0000

Alistair Burns chatted to Pat Jones-Greenhalgh, Executive Director of Adult Social Services in Bury, at a tea dance on 23 May. In the audio clip, Pat talks about raising awareness of dementia and what is happening in Bury during Dementia Awareness Week. Click below to listen to the audio clip on Audioboo.

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Alistair and Professor Rossor talk about dementia research

Rob Rockstroh — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:18:25 +0000

In this blog Alistair talks to Professor Martin Rossor from Dementias and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Network (DeNDRoN) about dementia research.

The PM challenge on dementia – creating dementia friendly communities, and improving dementia research

Rob Rockstroh — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:12:38 +0000

In this third blog about the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia, Alistair talks about creating dementia friendly communities, and improving dementia research.

Summary

There are four key parts to creating dementia friendly communities:

up to 20 cities, towns and villages have signed up to be dementia friendly across England by 2015
the idea needs support from leading businesses
an awareness raising campaign
A major event in 2012 getting together people from academia, business and public sector leaders.

Research

there will be a doubling in funding for research to £60 Million by 2015
there will be a major investment in brain scanning
there will be extra money from the economic and social research council
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) have funded 4 new NIHR dementia bio medical research units.
participation in high quality research – the aspiration is that 10% of people with dementia will be involved in a clinical trial.

Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia – improvements to health and care

Rob Rockstroh — Wed, 02 May 2012 16:18:21 +0000

In this blog Alistair talks about one strand of the Prime Minister’s challenge on dementia.

Key points

The challenge covers three main areas:

driving improvements in health and care
creating dementia friendly communities
improvements in research

In driving improvements in health and care there are five things thought to be particularly important:

increasing diagnosis rates
the dementia CQUIN
an innovation prize for NHS staff looking at better ways to help people with dementia
dementia care and support compact
looking at local information