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Loneliness in dementia is an important societal problem, but why is the...

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody” Mother Theresa I cannot recommend highly enough this account...

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Persons living well with dementia are not ‘curiosities’. So let’s move on...

Quite to my surprise, I found that the ‘Pushme-pullyu’ from “Doctor Dolittle” has its own description in Wikipedia: A ‘Pushme-pullyu’ was therefore a ‘creature of curiosity’. A common introduction to a...

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A prism of view of ‘dementia’ which is binary does not do anyone any favours

People like to make mental shortcuts. Known as ‘heuristics’, they are convenient tools to save time and energy. For example, when you’re buying a new tablet, you might be really biased towards one...

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That blue black gold white dress and dementia friendly communities

Is this dress black and blue or gold and white? The background colour of daylight varies during the time of day. That colour axis varies from the pinkish red of dawn, up through the blue-white of...

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Spirituality and sexuality for living better with dementia in residential...

Sexuality and spirituality are important topics for people living with dementia in residential settings. This article is not about diversity in diagnosis and service provision, which I cover elsewhere....

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“Alive inside: the story of music and memory”. A film screening in Brighton...

I always tell anyone I can meet, “Anything can happen to anyone at any time”.  I believe in persons not patients; I believe in looking at what people can do rather than what people cannot do; I believe...

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“A community where we’re nice to everyone? It might catch on.”

The word ‘friendly’ in the term “dementia friendly communities” defies definition. At the very worst, it has a twang of “does he take sugar?” about it. The reasonable question which most of us have...

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The issues that Manchester poses for ‘dementia friendly communities’

  I spent a lot of time physically in Manchester last year, for one reason or another. As a ‘Northern power house’, it happens to be only two hours away from London Euston on the train. Manchester has...

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Meeting Tommy Dunne

        I met Tommy Dunne, I think, the first time I met Chris Roberts. This was at the Alzheimer’s Show in Manchester. I met Joyce and Jayne there too. Whilst the first time I met Tommy he told me...

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Dementia friendliness is so 2014

  It’s time to “get real” about the direction of initiatives to do with dementia.   I ‘get’ single issue politics such as Brexit. I understand how charities are organised by individual conditions....

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