National maritime charity the Royal Alfred Seafarers’ Society welcomed actress and animal rights activist, Virginia McKenna, to its Banstead-based nursing care home, Belvedere House, as part of its Carers Week celebrations.

Residents of a Perthshire care home are learning French in foreign language workshops to help tackle dementia.

A Shropshire nursing home threw open its doors to the public as staff and residents raised money for a dementia charity.

Leamington Spa-based T (n) S Catering Management scooped a double award win in the care catering category and the contract catering multi-site manager category at this year’s Cost Sector Catering Awards.

A new study published in Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, suggests maintaining a higher level of physical activity during middle age may be a key strategy for the prevention of dementia in older age.