Tom Dening

It is worrying that there appears to be a sharp increase in deaths in the community that are not known to be due to covid-19.

This blog was written in response to an article in the Independent by James Moore, see https://edition.independent.co.uk/editions/uk.co.independent.issue.100

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I received this circulated message from the Science Media Centre in London:

Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?

I received this circulated message from the Science Media Centre in London:

Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?

This account of the late stages of her mother’s dementia was published by the French writer Annie Ernaux in 1997 but its first British publication was in 2019.

A recently published paper (Arthur A., et al, British Journal of Psychiatry Oct 7:1-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.193. [Epub ahead of print]) reports findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS), which is a population-based study of over 15,000 people aged 65 plus.

A small group of researchers from Primary Care and from Psychiatry & Applied Psychology, led by Professor Carol Coupland, has been addressing the question of whether receiving medications with anticholinergic properties is a possible risk factor for subsequentl

Nicci Gerrard is a well-known journalist, author and campaigner. Her book about dementia is an elegy for late father, who had dementia in the last years of his life.

The somebody is Wendy Mitchell as she was before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 58. She was a highly active, well-organised NHS manager with a responsible job, able to deal with nursing rotas for a hospital in her head.