One of the key aspects about the law, both domestically and internationally, is that the law has to be clear and enforceable. We can see this ‘in action’ where most of the criticisms of the National Minimum Wage have not been the way it’s been drafted, but the way it’s been implemented. There can, of […]
First of all, I should like to say at the outset that I don’t particularly like the term ‘early stages of dementia’. There are about a hundred different causes of dementia for a start, and they all progress in persons in an unique way at sometimes vastly different rates. Helga Rohra, Chair of the European […]
I will be responding to a Mental Health Foundation report on disability and dementia on Thursday. “Rights based approaches” hardly trips off the tongue, and it took me considerable time to get to the bottom of what it’s all about. I was, to be honest, a bit afraid whether it was “the next big thing” in […]
“Urgent” and “call for action” have become the potent memes in messaging radical transformative change. Hence the title of the statement about the #globaldementia event, held earlier this week in Geneva, came as no surprise to me. What did genuinely come as a surprise was how accommodating both WHO and the Alzheimer’s Disease International were […]
