NAPA have put together a really strong piece on #UKDC2025. It captures the main discussions, the practical ideas shared, and the thoughtful contributions from across the sector.
Read it here: buff.ly/1pAsvPO
After the success of the #ukdc2025 in Manchester, we are pleased to announce we will be returning to Manchester in March for #CognitiveStimulationTherapy Training!
Join us on the 20th March with Dr Banika Ahuja.
Tickets here: www.dementiapathfinders.org/event-detail...
Thanks to our @dementiacommunity.bsky.social for a successful and memorable conference, where ACP-UK's Dr Carolien Lamers took part. #UKDC2025
Thanks to everyone who joined ACP-UK's Psychology of Ageing Advisory Group, including network lead Dr Carolien Lamers, who presented in two sessions at the successful #UKDC2025, hosted by Dementia Community.
A huge thank you to the @dementiacommunity.bsky.social team for sharing so much of the #UKDC2025 Conference with people unable to attend in person. A very worthwhile two days 🙌💫
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester & Sarah Kirkland, senior Project Manager, Dementia United
"Living Well with dementia should be the national strategy" Andy Burnham. Absolutely!Such a pleasure to chair the Greater Manchester Showcase at #UKDC2025
Thank you to everyone who helped make Day 2 of #UKDC2025 such a good one. Delegates, speakers, partners, sponsors, lived experience supporters and exhibitors all brought so much to the day. Safe travels home.
What was the moment you will remember most?
Parallel Session 6.1 looked at responding to stress and distress in care homes. Amy Pepper shared the impact of non-pharmacological approaches on reducing distress and improving wellbeing. A steady and practical session with ideas people can use. #UKDC2025
Parallel Session 6.4 explored creativity, co-production and living creatively with dementia. Ronald Amanze and David Truswell shared honest reflections and real examples from their work and lived experience.
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Parallel Session 6.2 explored quality of life in advanced dementia. Dr Allan Perry’s talk on holistic care and the Well-being in Dementia Inventory offered a clear way of thinking about what really matters for people in later stages.
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Karan Jutlla from the University of Wolverhampton presenting on involving local minority ethnic communities in designing better dementia support. A real focus on understanding communities and working with people’s lived experience.
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“I love a robot and doubtless I will be in love with a robot at some point in my life.”
- Vic Rayner, sharing her robot friends with the audience this afternoon
Steady on, Vic!
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Jude Sweeting opens Parallel Session 5.1 on Challenges and successes in social care and dementia care today.
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The lunch-time session in the Auditorium is now underway. It’s a celebration of The Creative Dementia Practice Handbook - Arts for Health and Wellbeing, led by co-editors Maria Pasiecznik Parsons and Richard Coaten, with a poem by Ronald Amanze and dance by the Balbir Singh Dance Company.
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Mini-presentation Session 3: Community, Diagnosis and Support, Family Carers.
For anyone who would like to look back at the presentations from this session, they are permanently available on our YouTube channel here: buff.ly/57pCFfg
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Emma Smith (Age UK Salford and Trafford) and Lorna Hart-Thomson (Meeting Centres Scotland) get the room talking about dementia in UK prisons.
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Rosie Dunn from the University of West London shared the FIND ME project, co-developing guidelines to better involve family carers in dementia care in mental health inpatient wards.
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A full house for Parallel 4.4 in the Charles Hallé Room, with the Institute for Health and Care Improvement and York St John University delivering a powerful Academic Partner session.
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In the Barbirolli Room this afternoon, colleagues from the Alzheimer’s Society shared their work on creating a set of Involvement Principles shaped directly by people with lived experience.
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“Beautiful”. “Connection”. “Magic”. “Playfulness”. These were the words #UKDC2025 participants kept returning to as they reflected on the Manchester Camerata music session.
What does music mean to you?
Manchester Camerata took to the auditorium with their Music in Mind programme and the UK’s first Centre of Excellence for Music & Dementia. Giles Wilmott and colleagues brought warmth, music and enough percussion to wake up even the most conference-weary of us. #UKDC2025
Dementia Community’s own Beth Britton in action on stage with the Manchester Camerata team tonight at #UKDC2025.
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Wonderful to see this. Thanks so much, Sal, for being part of the Congress and for representing the Patient and Public Engagement Group alongside Jo Brown and Mohammed Akhlak Rauf.
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Some genuinely warm moments on the panel during the Tom Kitwood Memorial Address at #UKDC2025.
A thoughtful session… and a reminder that sincere smiles often do more for connection than anything written on a slide.
John Keady, Professor at the University of Manchester, explored how care aesthetics can influence the way we practise person-centred dementia care.
It raises an interesting question at #UKDC2025:
What small details in care settings make the biggest difference to how supported people feel?
A great moment from this afternoon’s session at #UKDC2025. The Bridgewater Hall’s organ pipes made a striking backdrop.
James Thompson, Applied Theatre Professor at the University of Manchester, delivered a thoughtful and engaging talk that more than matched the setting.
Jude Sweeting steps up to the podium as Suzanne Mumford closes her introduction. She highlighted this month’s Journal of Dementia Care, a free technology special for everyone!
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A behind the scenes moment as Suzanne Mumford chairs John Keady, James Thompson and Jenny Harris for this year’s Tom Kitwood Memorial Address. We’re all ears.
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Welcome everyone to the official start of Day 2 of #UKDC2025.
We open this morning with the Tom Kitwood Memorial Address.
