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It's Dementia Awareness Day tomorrow (17 September) take a look at the various events and ways you can get involved. You can join the campaign here.

Also, check out this brilliant video:

 

Well done to Norrms, who has spearheaded the whole Dementia Awareness Day initiative. You can check out his blog on CareSpace.

Regular CareSpace blogger and early onset dementia sufferer Norrms is leading a campaign to set up a dementia awareness day in September.

You can find out more and get involved in the campaign here.

CareSpace blogger, Normms, who suffers from early onset dementia is campaigning to set up a UK Dementia Awareness Day on September 17th.

You can pledge your support to the campaign here.

Could music be offered on prescription as a treatment for depression one day? Who knows - but a team at Glasgow Caledonian University are looking into the effect of music on mood. This could lead eventually to pieces of music designed to enhance mood in particular ways. Sounds most pleasant.

Elsewhere, my colleagues on the Adult Care Blog have updates on community treatment orders and possible new treatments for Alzheimer's.

On a completely unrelated note, New Scientists reports that the laws of physics may change across the universe. Weird eh?

(Photo courtesy of jrossol on flickr)

If you happen to be one of those iPhone owners you might want to check out a new app by the London School of Economics which helps measure your happiness on a daily basis. The free mappiness app will anonymously collate all the information to build a national picture of happiness and how it is affected by environmental factors. Sounds like a good use of technology.

Elsewhere, have you thought of leaving your job recently? If the evidence on CareSpace is anything to go by, lots of social workers find themselves in rather unhappy working situations. Psychology Today has come up with eight good reasons to quit your job - although a recession is perhaps not the ideal time to be looking for another one.

Also today, NICE is consulting on draft recommendations for psychosis and co-existing substance misuse.

And achieving goals can help people in the early stages of dementia manage their condition, research has found.

Finally, there's a new blog out there dedicated to fostering wellbeing.

Our Dementia Declaration campaign is gathering pace, with a Facebook page, Twitter Twibbon and an online petition that is fast approaching 300 signatures.

Community Care has today launched its Dementia Declaration - a campaign to get dementia debated during the forthcoming election.