A Swansea care home is transforming a piece of waste ground into a nine-acre nature park. The £100,000 project at Hengoed Court & Hengoed Park Care Home, a member of the Care Forum Wales organisation, has been inspired by the memories… read more »
The Older People’s Commissioner for Wales is calling for action to be taken by public services across Wales to ensure that people living with dementia and those who care for them can access the services, support, information and advice that… read more »
Around eight in 10 people worry about developing dementia in Wales and four in 10 think if someone in their family has dementia they may develop it too, according to a survey published today. The Welsh Government survey shows 76… read more »
Dementia Awareness Training event ** FREE FOR CARE FORUM WALES MEMBERS (or £35 per delegate for non-members) ** Stephen Ford, CFW’s lead on dementia care, will hold a seminar which is free for CFW members on November 12. Stephen Ford… read more »
Health Minister Mark Drakeford officially opened the specialist dementia care facilities at a Barry Island care home on September 4. Following a substanital investement Island View Residential Home is now officially an EMI facility which can cater for around 40… read more »
Health Minister Mark Drakeford has said he is ‘encouraged’ at the way an innovative project in Monmouthshire is seeing those with ‘complex mental health needs’ be cared for at home. Professor Drakeford today (July 29) visited the Raglan Project, linked… read more »
BBC News today reported that data from pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly suggests its solanezumab drug can cut the rate of the dementia’s progression by about a third in early stage patients. It is the first time that a drug has… read more »
A survey of GPs by the Alzheimer’s Society has revealed that GPs think support for people diagnosed with dementia is patchy, leaving family and friends to create a support network where services are inadequate. The survey of 1,000 GPs showed… read more »
The funding for adult mental health services is to receive an £8m boost, the Welsh Assembly Government announced today. The additional £8m a year is in addition to an earlier announcement (May 22) promising an extra £7.6m for children’s and… read more »
Care Forum Wales’s group lead on dementia, Stephen Ford, is offering members the chance to attend one of two free dementia awareness training seminars in May. The seminars will include a mixture of information, myth-busting and role-play activities as well… read more »