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  • What's funny about dementia?
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Mon, 09/05/2016 - 17:08

    Last week I found myself onstage at Nottingham University’s Lakeside Theatre as part of an evening exploring Comedy and Mental Health.
  • Dementia and hearing
    Anna Lindstrand
    Anna Lindstrand Thu, 05/05/2016 - 09:36

    About a year ago I applied for a new position within the audiology department that I work in. Little did I realise quite how much it was going to change my life and change me.
  • How NOT to get a Carer’s Assessment
    Anne de Gruchy Wed, 27/04/2016 - 19:06

    For many years now I have been caught up in a cycle of stress and meltdowns trying to juggle life and work and my dad’s needs.
  • The Saga of Dad and the Gunge Boiler...
    Anne de Gruchy Wed, 27/04/2016 - 19:02

    ...Or how dementia and a distance of two hundred miles turns boiler breakdowns into a multi-faceted guessing game and a delicate delegation operation!
  • Fight or flight
    Sarah BAker
    Sarah Baker Wed, 27/04/2016 - 17:26

    Four years ago, it all changed. My Grandmother, Jasmin, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I always knew what dementia was, but I didn’t know the huge impact it would have on my family, especially me.
  • Making the great outdoors more inclusive for people with dementia
    Victoria Hill
    Victoria Hill Fri, 08/04/2016 - 16:39

    Natural England have just published an interesting new report: ‘Is it nice outside?’.  The report investigates how engagement with nature and the great outdoors can be improved for the benefit of people living with dementia.
  • Words and dementia
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Fri, 08/04/2016 - 16:33

    Words are both beautiful and terrible things. Using words like ‘mellifluous’ or ‘Christmas cake’ brings to mind a whole set of associations and images. On the other hand, words are used to spin the web that is the stigma around dementia.
  • The value of words
    Karen Gray
    Karen Gray Fri, 08/04/2016 - 16:26

    On the train home from Nottingham to Bristol last week I finished The Iceberg: A Memoir by the artist Marion Coutts.  This extraordinary and devastating book d
  • The Deafening Silence of Sibling Rivalries
    Anonymous Thu, 07/04/2016 - 12:49

    I recently attended a presentation at the IMH about the ways in which adult children face the challenges of looking after a parent who has dementia.
  • Mad professors and free spirits
    Justine Schneider
    Justine Schneider Wed, 30/03/2016 - 10:58

    In generating public understanding about dementia, the arts and social sciences have as much to offer as neuroscience.  This is the starting-point of a group which has been invited to take up the 2016-2018 residency in The Hub at Wellcome Collecti

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