A funding award of £225,000 has been announced by the Life Changes
Trust and the Baring Foundation to support new and existing community
choirs across the whole of Scotland to become dementia inclusive. Continue reading Funding hits all the right notes for Scotland-wide dementia friendly choir network
A NURSE is encouraging people to plan ahead for the festive period to help friends and relatives living with dementia. Continue reading Make this a Dementia-friendly Christmas
Maggie wins 2018 Simon Pullin Award
A YOUNG nursing student was honoured for her outstanding caring skills after turning to poetry to articulate the demands of the job. Continue reading Prize-winning nurse turns her compassion into poetry
A new project, Movement for Memories, will support people living with dementia and their carers to become or remain physically active in Edinburgh. This work is supported with funding from the Life Changes Trust. The Trust is funded by the Big Lottery. Continue reading New Edinburgh project supports people with dementia to be more active and healthy
I am a member of a small voluntary association and we have recently started running a new Singing Group for people with dementia their carers.
We meet the 1st and 3rd Wednesday afternoon of each month from 2- 4 pm in Drylaw Parish Church and are actively seeking new members from the Drylaw area. The Group is open to anyone one with dementia, accompanied by a carer or escort.
Rosemary King
Edinburgh Leisure is set to launch a new project called Movement for Memories, to support people living with dementia to get active, thanks to funding from the Life Changes Trust. Continue reading Movement for Memories: new Edinburgh project creates physical activities for people living with dementia
A West Lothian woman is organising a ladies’ day event in Edinburgh to raise money for pioneering dementia research in honour of her mum who died with Alzheimer’s disease aged 65. Jennifer Littlejohn, from East Calder, is putting on a day of prosecco, afternoon tea, shopping and live music at The Hub in Castlehill, Edinburgh, on Sunday 18 March to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research UK. Continue reading Jennifer to host ladies’ day event in memory of mum
A dementia friendly ‘forget-me-not garden’ is to be planted in the grounds of a castle by the sea in North West Edinburgh. Continue reading Forget Me Not: dementia friendly garden for Lauriston Castle
Touching images that document the everyday life of people living with dementia have been unveiled as part of a creative project between Edinburgh Napier University and an Edinburgh care charity. Continue reading Moving images reflect life with dementia
Scottish Gas is working with Alzheimer Scotland and the Alzheimer’s Society to encourage families, friends and carers of customers living with dementia across Scotland to contact their energy company if they are concerned about the energy account of their loved ones this winter. Continue reading Scottish Gas ready to help customers living with dementia this winter
