Brain Awareness Week is a global campaign to foster public enthusiasm and support for brain science. Every March communities host imaginative activities that share the wonders of the brain, and the impact brain science has on our everyday lives. The week is also an opportunity to share key messages of prevention and practical ways people ..read more

  An AHP Dementia Webinar “Thank you! as a Newly qualified speech and language therapist, information like this is invaluable to my development.“ “Lots of new ideas to follow up on“ “Loved hearing about speech and language therapy approaches at the different stages of a person’s journey.“ “Lisa Fox’s presentation today was a really concise and ..read more

It’s January 2024 and the pressures on our acute sites are causing serious concerns … patients are queuing at our accident and emergency departments for never heard of before, prolonged periods of time. With not enough beds to cope with the demand for admission, patient care is not at the usual level we strive to ..read more

SPOTLIGHT ON SLEEP Have you seen our online interactive website, Connecting People Connecting Support online Occupation Matters? The aim of the website is to reach out to individuals, their families and those working alongside them to find ways to connect or reconnect with valued roles and occupations to support people’s health and wellbeing. We have ..read more

Last year for the first time, we supported allied health professional students from Robert Gordon University at our Alzheimer Scotland Brain Health and Dementia Resource Centre in Aberdeen and in partnership with the allied health professionals in NHS Grampian. We invited the physiotherapy student and occupational therapy student to reflect on their time with us ..read more

AHP Dementia Webinar “I enjoyed the care partners perspective about how they can be better supported.” “It was a fantastic presentation from everyone – took in a lot of very useful information.” “Great to hear about Frank and Ian’s experience and some of the AHP roles.” We work together as an allied health professional’s community ..read more

I was delighted to be asked to support the Scottish Dementia Working Group to update the “Top Tips” for living with dementia booklet. First edition The first edition of this wonderful booklet was created in 2015 by a ‘Top Tips” subgroup formed with members of the Scottish Dementia Working Group and an occupational therapy intern ..read more

Held once again at Edinburgh’s International Conference Centre (EICC) Alzheimer Scotland’s annual conference offered a packed programme around the theme ‘Our choice, Our voice, Our future’.  As part of the growing partnership work between Alzheimer Scotland and Edinburgh Napier University, to support a skilled AHP workforce, the Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy programmes were delighted to ..read more

A brief overview of our blogs from 2024 We launched our weekly blog in June 2014 and through our weekly blogs posts we’ve found new ways of connecting colleagues, families and people living with dementia with each other. We’ve created a new online community that lets people share their work and passion in dementia.  In ..read more

Our weekly blog was launched in June 2014, hosted and supported by Alzheimer Scotland and led by Elaine Hunter, national allied health professional consultant at Alzheimer Scotland. Since April 2014, we have posted 600 blogs. In 2024 we shared 55 blogs, reaching a truly international audience, people reading the blogs in the UK, USA, Ireland ..read more