Alzheimer’s Research UK are thrilled to announce our new charity partner, leading motorway service area operator, Roadchef. Roadchef has been a part of the nation’s journeys for over five decades, welcoming more than 52 million road users across 30 services a year. To help protect the big and small memories Roadchef see made every day, they’ve chosen to support our work. “Thank you to the Roadchef team for voting to stand with us for a cure for dementia. Together, we will end the heartbreak it causes.” – Hilary Evans, Chief…
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Cadbury release Memory Bar Boxes as part of partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK
Cadbury’s has released Memory Bar Boxes as part of partnership with Alzheimer’s Research UK, their release is below: Cadbury is sending out thousands of specially launched Memory Bar Boxes, as part of our partnership. Featuring the six limited-edition retro Dairy Milk bars, these boxes have been designed to support people living with dementia by stimulating conversation and supporting memory activities. Find out more and apply for your own Memory Bar Box This is part of Alzheimer’s Research UK’s wider partnership with Cadbury, to help accelerate our progress towards a…
Read MoreWill Poulter narrates popular children’s book, Elmer and the Gift, in support of Alzheimer’s Research UK
To mark Dementia Action Week (15 – 21 May) and the release of the paperback, Will Poulter, star of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy 3, showed his support for dementia research by narrating Elmer and the Gift, the final book in the popular series written and illustrated by the late David McKee. The reading marks a collaboration between Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, and Andersen Press, to celebrate the 30th and last book in the hugely popular Elmer the Elephant series, written and illustrated by McKee,…
Read MoreDementia organisations fly the flag for music as new study gets underway
Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, has joined forces with Music for Dementia, a national campaign, to highlight music as a positive way to support people with dementia and inspire those who are working relentlessly on research. The partnership comes as Alzheimer’s Research UK is seeking volunteers with dementia and their carers to sign up to the research platform Join Dementia Research. The platform is looking for volunteers to take part in a study to explore music as a therapy. Alzheimer’s Research UK will supply playlists from…
Read MoreGrowing up in rural or suburban areas improves spatial navigation
People who grew up in rural or suburban areas have better spatial navigation skills than those raised in cities, particularly cities with grid-pattern streets, finds a new study led by researchers at UCL, University of Lyon and the University of East Anglia (UEA). The researchers also found that people whose home cities had grid layouts were slightly better at navigating similarly organised street patterns, despite having poorer performance overall, as early childhood environments influence not only navigation ability, but navigation styles as well. The study, published in Nature, involved nearly…
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