looking back looking ahead
A brief overview of our blogs from 2025
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 an online community that lets people share their work and innovation in dementia. In this week’s blog we are sharing ten blogs from 2025 that share our work to support rehabilitation in dementia, allied health professional students and partnership working. Enjoy looking back at our blogs from 2025.
Rehabilitation series
What does dementia rehabilitation mean to you? Read again here
What does Rehabilitation mean to Angela as an Occupational Therapist? Read again here
What does rehabilitation in dementia mean to me as a speech and language therapist? Read again here
“Reading Aloud” – the benefits of reading aloud. Read again here
Allied health professional students
“Dementia affects every individual differently”. Reflections by allied health professional student from Robert Gordon University. Read again here
My Placement Experience with Alzheimer Scotland. Reflection by allied health professional student from Queen Margaret University. Read again here
A community visit from Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy students at Edinburgh at Edinburgh Napier University to Alzheimer Scotland. Read again here
Partnership working
What Happens When Cancer and Dementia Meet? An Occupational Therapist’s View. Read again here
The Rise of the Comfort Champions by Jane Mimnaugh, Dementia Nurse Consultant (NHS Lanarkshire, written in collaboration with Su Ross and Kim Brown, Our Story. Read again here
Live and Jive: Bringing live and personalised music to older people in acute hospitals in NHS Tayside by Dr Suzanne Gray, Consultant Nurse Dementia, NHS Tayside. Read again here.
I want to thank you every member of our ‘Let’s Talk about Dementia’ community, for what you’ve created. Thank you for bringing your very best practice to us and sharing it with us on our weekly blog and then again at @AHPDementia. If you would like to write a blog, then email me at AHPDementia@alzscot.org
We look forward to your continued support of this work in 2026.
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Elaine Hunter, National Allied Health Professional Consultant, Alzheimer Scotland.
