Earlier this year, Alzheimer’s Research UK offered dementia researchers in the early stages of their career a chance to sit in on a meeting of our Grant Review Board. Dr Lauren Walker took the opportunity…
Is there such a thing as ‘writers block’? How can you come out of the other end?
I assume you watched Love Island, right? It seems we all did. And if you didn’t (Don’t worry it will be back in the summer). Cancel all plans and you’ll…
Michael Adeogun, Head of Life Sciences and Health at National Physical Laboratory, discusses the importance of effective measurement for the life sciences industry in achieving the key goals outlined in…
Mum-of-two Carla Bramall began showing the symptoms of dementia at just 30-years-old, and she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at just 36. Now 39, Carla is bedbound in a care…
“There’s no connection between the brain and my eyes. The connection has been broken.” Dementia isn’t all about memory loss. Watch Trina’s story about her life with posterior cortical atrophy,…
Manager of the South West Dementia Brain Bank Dr Laura Palmer explains her work at the bank and the connection she feels with the brain donors.
Sophia tells us about her grandma, who has dementia. Part of DementiaExplained.org, Alzheimer’s Research UK’s website helping children understand more about dementia.
There are a number of opportunities to be a clinician and academic in the UK. Watch this film from the MRC to explain more.
Rose celebrated her 92nd birthday in February. She has dementia and lives on her own in a flat in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. With the support of family,…
Some viewers may find this film upsetting. Bruce Bovill gives a brave and moving account of his experience caring for his wife, Jan, in the later stages of her dementia.
Peter, 82, was diagnosed with vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in January 2009. He and his wife Sheila, 63, go to their local Memory Café and Singing for the Brain…
