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Dementia awareness and living with dementia.

Support for isolated dementia carers

Support for isolated dementia carers

Essex-based charity, Dementia Adventure, is offering free online support to the thousands of dementia carers and families across the UK who may feel…

By Rachel Branson · 31 Mar 2020

No aluminium – no Alzheimer’s

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No aluminium – no Alzheimer’s

Research by UK scientists shows that if it wasn’t for aluminium, Alzheimer’s Disease might not have emerged as widespread as it is today.

By Rachel Branson · 12 Jan 2019

Dementia - The Missing Link

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Dementia - The Missing Link

There are at present approximately 850,000 cases of dementia in the UK and this looks set to rise to over a million by 2025. Nearly 40,000 of those…

By Rachel Branson · 3 Mar 2018

Music for the brain!

East Sussex

Music for the brain!

role in dementia care & one Sussex care home has capitalised on music’s therapeutic effects by partnering with Alzheimer’s initiative: Singing for the Brain

By Rachel Branson · 4 May 2017

6 tips to help ward off dementia!

East Sussex

6 tips to help ward off dementia!

Take action now and you can significantly reduce your chances of developing dementia. In East Sussex alone, one in six people over the age of 80 has dementia

By Rachel Branson · 25 Feb 2016

Living with the challenges of dementia

East Sussex

Living with the challenges of dementia

Dementia is becoming an increasing challenge, not only for many older people, but also for their close family and friends... is particularly challenging for

By Rachel Branson · 7 Jul 2015

Caring for an older parent

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Caring for an older parent

Mum having a fall, Dad having a stroke, Gran developing dementia… all events that suddenly make us leap into action so that we adapt to caring for an older…

By Rachel Branson · 7 May 2014

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