The Government has announced two leaders in dementia research will co-chair a national mission dedicated to tackling the condition. Hilary Evans and Nadeem Sarwar have been appointed to the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission, following an announcement by George Freeman, the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation at the World Dementia Council Summit this week. […]

Research Champion and Sunday Times best-selling author Wendy Mitchell was diagnosed with young onset dementia at the age of 58. Wendy, who was an NHS Manager for 20 years until 2015 recalls: “I was coming out of my office one day and I didn’t know who I was or who all the people around me […]

A new study in Nottinghamshire is seeking volunteers to form a singing group to study the benefits of singing for people with dementia.  University of Nottingham researchers are seeking 80 people with dementia and their carers to take part in the Preliminary Randomised Evaluation of Singing in Dementia (PRESIDE 2024) study, which is using Join […]

The findings of a research study that discovered a treatment for early stage Alzheimer’s disease have been hailed as “momentous” by Alzheimer’s Research UK.  The new treatment, lecanemab, is the first drug to slow cognitive decline in people with early signs of the condition. The CLARITY-AD study enrolled 1,795 patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s globally, including Join […]

There are almost one million people with dementia in the UK and the most common cause is Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers from University College London (UCL) with funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research are testing a new approach to the treatment of mild Alzheimer’s disease in the DESPIAD (DEpletion of SaP in […]

Although the causes of dementia are not yet known, we do know which lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise and smoking can affect brain health and the chances of developing dementia. Until now, there has been little insight into the perceptions of brain health around the world. In June 2019 an anonymous online survey ‘The […]

This year, Dementia Action Week takes place 16-22 May in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Dementia podcast With this being a key opportunity in the calendar to raise awareness about dementia, we are delighted to share a new podcast with Professor John O’Brien, the NIHR National Specialty Lead for Dementia. In this podcast, Professor O’Brien […]

After a period of many online studies, we are pleased to share that researchers are increasingly inviting participants to take part in face to face studies.  Here are some examples of studies currently looking for volunteers to take part in different parts of the UK: Sleep, gut health and cognition study Insomnia in later life […]

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in the UK and the symptoms develop gradually over many years. Background The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease can progress slowly and many, such as getting more forgetful, can be attributed to ‘just getting older.’ This can make diagnosis more difficult and currently there is no single […]

As we mark 7 years of matching volunteers with researchers, we’d like to celebrate some of the highlights from the past year:     Since the service began, there have been over 60,000 enrolments onto studies through Join Dementia Research, that’s an increase of 12,000 in the last year.   Join Dementia Research volunteers played […]