Neil Chadborn

Have you seen the recent Alzheimer’s Society high impact TV advert?* It’s dramatic! And at the point where it changes from disquietingly bleak to rousingly positive (don’t want to spoil it) the voiceover suddenly announces:

“It’s set to be the UK’s biggest killer”

I’ve invited Dr Shibley Rahman (@dr_shibley) to give a seminar as part of our seminar series here at Centre for Dementia, Institute of Mental Health (@InstituteMH).

This year the Centre for Dementia dedicated our annual event to patient and public involvement. We were keen to showcase the many good inclusive research studies at Institute of Mental Health, but we also committed to improving how we do this across the Centre.

This follow up blog concerns Neil’s first visit to Nijmegen for Alzheimer’s Society Knowledge Exchange fellowship: “Negotiating Better Community Support for People with Dementia”

I feel very honoured to have been awarded an Alzheimer’s Society knowledge exchange fellowship. With this funding I will be working with colleagues in Netherlands to share expertise about dementia care in the community.

We missed Rob at a recent event about involving people with dementia and carers in research. It was a shock to hear that he was in hospital, but I still somehow expected him to pull through.

I think people ‘get’ Dementia-Friends or even Dementia-Champions and associated campaigns and events. Dementia-Friendly Communities (or cities) I think may require a bit more work to convey to many people.

Academics are generally discreet about how their initial ideas for a research project develop. There are lots of reasons for this - some are rational, other reasons can seem a little 'paranoid'.