Experts demand better training to improve person-centred care, reducing the need for antipsychotic drugs - but still training is not mandatory. Julie Griffiths investigates Experts demand better ...

A comprehensive study of California’s In-Home Supportive Services program found that specialized dementia training significantly improved home care workers’ knowledge and confidence when caring for ...

Additional staffing alone will not be sufficient to bridge the quality-of-care and health outcome disparities among nursing home facilities with varying percentages of residents with dementia, ...

No one associated with nursing homes – as residents or their families, friends, staff or administrators – is unaware of the massive impact of the pandemic on these facilities which provide essential ...

Nursing home workers should be trained to provide specific care for dementia patients, whose presence in nursing homes is growing, according to new research. The study, published in Health Affairs on ...

Quality of life for people with dementia living in residential and nursing home care substantially improved after staff took part in a digital training programme that was specially adapted to Covid-19 ...

Life ended for Thomas Botelho when he was infected with the coronavirus at Paradise Care Cottage and later died on Aug. 4 at the assisted-living facility from complications of COVID-19 and dementia.

A Devon care home group was invited to take part in Alzheimer’s Society research set to form the basis of new mandatory dementia training in ...

Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Dana Mukamel from the University of California, Irvine on her recent paper examining whether residents diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are ...

Dementia care can be emotionally and physically taxing, with traditional strategies often feeling rigid and limiting. The Improving Care Through Improv program—created and organized by experts from ...

A scheme in Surrey aimed at improving access to dementia care and upskilling care home staff has been called "the first of its kind in the UK" by Surrey County Council (SCC). Two Admiral Nurses, ...