Many people living with dementia, having been told to expect the worst sometimes from some professionals, find themselves surprised when they’ve found they’ve met some nice people after diagnosis, and learnt new things. And guess what? You do not have to be religious to have hopes. Addressing emotional and physical needs are important for meeting […]
The talk will be based on the following, as time permits. The Department of Health now needs to consider the next phase of work on Dementia, after the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia, which is due to end in March 2015. We are now in a much better place than where we were. This is […]
It is estimated that in 2015 there will be 850,000 people living with dementia. Having decided at the beginning of last year that I would to any conferences on dementia, I found myself attending the Alzheimer’s Show in London Olympia and Manchester; the Alzheimer’s Association conference in Copenhagen of a book signing, Alzheimer’s Europe conference […]
This, rather than “The Golden Arches”, is fast becoming a symbol of hope. The motor vehicle was supposed to be a major disruption for the horse and cart. Paper superseded parchment. The DVD long surpassed the audio cassette. Progress and innovation, whatever your political philosophy, some might say is pretty inevitable. In terms of technology, […]
Picture this. It’s a busy GP morning surgery in London. A patient in his 50s, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, a condition which causes a progressive decline in structure and function of the brain, has a simple question off his GP. “Now that I know that I have Alzheimer’s disease, how best can I look […]
All governments in the UK have recently thought about ‘reforming public services’, mostly in the context of public-private partnerships (PPP) or the private finance initiative (PFI). Third sector organisations, such as social enterprises and charities, especially large ones, are acting in increasingly private or even corporate ways. Many feel that this has now become a […]
I’ve sat in more recovery sessions than you’ve had hot dinners…. .. possibly. So I get a surge of dopamine whenever I receive yet more copies of my book from Amazon. Worth every penny. I am Shibley. and I’m addicted to buying my own book. But I also have a weird habit of getting people […]
To be clear, I think the work of the Alzheimer’s Society is fantastic. Since their restructuring, with the support of the Department of Health, they have done really important work in activities to do with dementia, not just Alzheimer’s disease. Goliath (Hebrew: גָּלְיָת,) is a a giant Philistine warrior defeated by the young David, the future king of Israel, […]
In case you don’t like the soundtrack, here are the slides. To some extent, Europe resolved our dispute about whether we should aspire to an ‘early diagnosis’, or ‘timely diagnosis’ for dementia. The overall consensus from the European ALCOVE project was that a diagnosis should be timely, in keeping with the needs of the person […]
In a rather strange Stakhanovite way, certain health magazines are strangely obsessed with the fetish of the ‘top 100’. I am as such not a great advocate of, “Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.” immortalised by Chapter 3 of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but as someone who has devoted all of […]
Living better with dementia 