How more than 70 new dementia researchers grew from an 11 million pound investment from the National Institute for Health and Care Research and Alzheimer's Society. Creating a new research workforce to tackle dementia patients and families across England and beyond.

A research team based at Bournemouth University has been working with carers, families and people with dementia to help identify their needs as they or their loved one wait for a formal diagnosis. The team took an unusual creative approach using art and photography to record people's feelings and expressions of need. The team and partner organisations displayed their work in an exhibition at the Poole Lighthouse Art Centre which ran from January until February 2026. In Dorset

Events across England have been taking place to mark Dementia Action Week supported by Alzheimer's Society.

£4.4 billion pounds is spent of falls in old people each year in the UK