Regulators in the US are set to approve Aducanumab - developed by multi-national biotech firm Biogen - in the coming days. The drug helps untangle clusters of plaque in the brain, suggesting it could stop the progression of the disease

It is fair to say that carehome.co.uk is the go-to website in the UK for reviews of residential care homes. The website gets a staggering 16 million visits a year and has more than 200,000 care home reviews.

Scotland and Manchester United legend Denis Law has been diagnosed with dementia. Law, 81, who says he has Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, is the latest former player to reveal he is suffering from the degenerative brain disease.

Family-run care providers Coate Water Care provides expert respite care in our nine highly-rated residential care homes in Swindon, Wiltshire, Devizes, Gloucester, Hampshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

After its recent £4 million renovation Mockley Manor Care Home in Warwickshire really does have the wow factor, but one thing has not changed. Five minutes into a conversation with anybody connected with Mockley Manor and the word ‘home’ inevitably crops up.

Managed by family-run providers Coate Water Care since July 2020, Avebury House Care Centre offers exceptional residential, day care and respite care, including 24-hour care for people living with dementia. Our qualified nurses and experienced carers also provide specialist care for residents with palliative care needs.

Working in the care sector is not just a job it is a vocation, and Coate Water Care is constantly on the lookout for people with the compassionate qualities needed for a sometimes challenging yet always highly rewarding career.

Across the UK, 850,000 people are living with dementia and soon, if predictions are correct, there will be a million. In a series of interviews with the BBC, some of them, and their families, share their tips for living with the condition, how to talk to people with dementia and how they have learned to adjust to their changing brains.

Developing Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia is many Britons’ worst fear when it comes to ageing, according to a recent survey by YouGov. And it’s easy to see why. Outside the pandemic years, when Covid deaths slightly outnumbered dementia deaths (by 0.6 per cent), dementia and Alzheimer’s disease have been the leading cause of mortality in the UK

As a family-run care home Coate Water Care has always been proud of the way we are able to recruit great nurses and carers and retain them by offering positive working conditions and a range of opportunities for career progression. In fact, many of our senior staff have been with us for years after joining us as starter carers.

By 2050, more than 153 million people could have dementia, up from 57 million in 2019, experts are warning. The predicted rise is largely down to ageing and growing populations. But unhealthy lifestyles contribute too, the researchers say in The Lancet Public Health journal, as reported by the BBC.

Restrictions in place to prevent the spread of Omicron in adult social care, including at residential care homes like those managed by Coate Water Care, have been eased following the success of the booster roll-out.