Association for Dementia Studies

If you work in a care home and want to conduct research but don’t know where to start, take a look at our CHARM Framework Manual https://adsdementiablog.wordpress.com/charm/charm-section-1/ Lots of advice taking you step-by-step through the research process

If you work with people with mild to moderate dementia, have a look at this video to see if Meeting Centres might be appropriate https://youtu.be/DpzwtlduXho

Make sure you don’t miss out on Meeting Centre newsletters or key information – join the Meeting Centre mailing list https://www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academic-schools/school-of-health-and-wellbeing/health-and-wellbeing-research/association-for-dementia-studies/ads-research/uk-meeting-centres.aspx

Are you working whilst providing personal care for someone living with dementia? Our booklet provides advice around this, as well as additional advice to staying strong in the long term. You matter.https://caringhelp.on.worc.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/L7-staying-strong-in-the-long-term.pdf

Take a look at this Extra Care Housing booklet specifically for housing providers.https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/13310/1/Booklet%20for%20ECH%20Providers_print_isbn.pdf

Want to make the most of your garden or outside space but are worried it’s not dementia friendly? Our free booklet has hints, tips and a handy checklist to help you get it sorted.https://www.worcester.ac.uk/documents/Making-your-garden-dementia-friendly-booklet-final.pdf

Work in a care home and want to know how to better support people with advanced dementia and at end of life? Take a look at our Namaste Care online course starting in late August to find out how it could helphttps://adsdementiablog.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/nc-flyer-v5-2026-27.pdf Contact us [email protected]

If you’ve made any changes to your environment after using one of our dementia-friendly environmental assessment tools, please let us know about them in a short survey https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ucw/ref-at

Have you seen our environmental assessment tools App? Take a look https://www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academic-schools/school-of-health-and-wellbeing/health-and-wellbeing-research/association-for-dementia-studies/ads-consultancy/the-kings-fund-environmental-assessment-tools

In this week’s you can learn about work we’re doing to help make the university community more dementia-aware https://adsdementiablog.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/building-a-more-dementia-aware-university-a-collaborative-approach/