Banners created by people living with dementia who worked with a trio of well-known artists will be on display in Exeter until the end of March.
The banners, including one developed by members of Age UK Exeter’s Budding Friends group, are on show as a special exhibit in Exeter Library.
Photographer Ian Beesley, poet Ian McMillan, and cartoonist Tony Husband worked with people living with dementia and their carers to create the banners as part of the ‘A Life More Ordinary’ project which originated from research at the University of Exeter. The project aims to support people...
The University of Exeter is part of a global initiative to revolutionise the early detection of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Led by Alzheimer’s Research UK, the project will harness and analyse a wealth of digital data to develop signatures of disease – or “fingerprints” – that can be then detected using wearable technologies, such as smart watches. The collaboration aims to secure at least £67m over the first six years, with an ambition to attract up to £100m of total investment by 2030 to build and trial its diagnostic device on a large scale. Initial funds...
EXPERTS at a leading south Devon care provider are championing a variety of innovative techniques this month (February 2020) to care for people with dementia living at home in the county.
Guardian Homecare, operating in the Exeter area, says it is important to use different methods for those with the condition and has rolled these out as part of its staff training.
Manager for Guardian Homecare, Catherine Porter says: “We have worked with people with dementia for many years and through this we have developed a variety of techniques, which can be used when caring for someone...
Sally Chapman from Chudleigh celebrated her birthday this year by having her head shaved to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity.
Sally, who turned 55, was inspired by her father who had vascular dementia.
In the build up to her head shave, Sally raised over £1300 for Alzheimer’s Research UK, which powers world-class studies focusing on prevention, diagnosis and treatments for dementia. There are 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK and this number is expected to rise to over 1 million by 2025.
EXPERTS at a leading south Devon care provider are championing a variety of innovative techniques this month (January 2020) to care for people with dementia living at home in the county.
Guardian Homecare, operating in Torbay and Exeter, says it is important to use different methods for those with the condition and has rolled these out as part of its staff training.
Manager for Guardian Homecare, Catherine Porter says: “We have worked with people with dementia for many years and through this we have developed a variety of techniques, which can be used when caring for...
A new, state-of-the-art genome sequencing platform will put Exeter on the cutting edge of research into the genomic basis of health and disease.
The Illumina NovaSeq sequencer has just been installed at the University of Exeter, part-funded by over £600,000 from the Wellcome Trust. The investment represents a significant upgrade to Exeter’s ability to sequence whole genomes faster and in much greater depth than before.
The award has also enabled Exeter to invest in technology for profiling the way genes are expressed – or “switched on” - in individual cells. It will enable...
Did you know that one in six people (one in five in Devon) have hearing loss in the UK and for those over fifty this rises to four in ten? Hearing loss affects both children and adults, some people are born deaf, some loose hearing through an accident or subjection to loud noise and for others hearing can be a gradually loss over time. As a charity which supports Deaf (BSL Users) and people with disabilities, Living Options Devon regularly engages with its service users. The charity also facilitates service providers and encourages them to better support and improve services for those with...
The number of people with dementia in Devon is set to soar by 39%, warns a report published today, commissioned by Alzheimer’s Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science [1].
The report predicts that as our population ages, a higher proportion of people with dementia will have higher care needs for longer, driving up the average amount spent on care.
It shows more than 60% a year of social care costs in England will fall on people with dementia and their families. Previous research by Alzheimer’s Society has shown that someone with dementia will...
Data scientists, artificial intelligence experts and clinicians are among a range of professionals invited to join a new national network to find innovative ways of conducting dementia research and care.
The ARUK Deep Dementia Phenotyping (DEMON) Network is led by the University of Exeter and is supported by Alzheimer’s Research UK, the Alan Turing Institute and Dementias Platform UK. It aims t o unite experts from a wide range of fields to find new solutions to research in dementia.
DEMON Network lead Professor David Llewellyn of the University of Exeter Medical School and...
What an informative and moving morning had by all at Cranbrook Education Campus.
The Exeter Dementia Action Alliance (EDAA) spent the morning at Cranbrook raising dementia awareness and inspiring action.
Sara and Barrie Carless who are living with dementia accompanied Gina Awad, Lead of the alliance as they delivered Dementia Friends sessions reaching 75 8-11 year olds. This was followed by an assembly presentation by Gina to the secondary students illustrating the work of the alliance and future visits to Cranbrook.
Louise Telford, Deputy Head, said: “The students...
