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  • 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
  • Heaven on earth?
    Claudio Di Lorito
    Claudio Di Lorito Fri, 25/03/2016 - 14:01

    I was recently lucky enough to visit one of those countries which for most people living above 30 degrees latitude and experiencing grim winter morning fogs and dreadful rush hour traffic would be called "heaven on e
  • Wellbeing and living with dementia…
    Fiona Marshall Thu, 03/03/2016 - 21:33

    Two things have recently made me think about the ways in which we as academics think about living with dementia; recent reading of wellbeing meanings in general and receiving a couple of battery hens.

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