Dementia Action Week (15-21 May) is an annual awareness-raising campaign. This year’s theme is getting an earlier diagnosis of the condition. Lewis Deakin, a communications manager at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has written this blog in memory of his grandmother Edna for Dementia Action Week. Edna’s story Dementia is cruel. […]

The ‘AFFECT’ study is the first large-scale research study that is a collaboration between researchers in Northern Ireland, and staff at the Dementias and Neurodegenerative Specialty  in England. It is also being jointly funded by the Alzheimer’s Society and British Heart Foundation. Did you know that after Alzheimer’s Disease, Vascular Dementia is the most common […]