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This blog was written in response to an article in the Independent by James Moore, see https://edition.inde
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Care pathways have become a ubiquitous term in health and social care.
I have worked in the field of dementia care for some forty years and consider myself to have a passion for improving the quality of care families affected by dementia receive. In more recent years my career took a
Ivan lived on his own [1]. He was unsteady on his feet, and scarcely able to care for himself despite a large amount of outside help. His isolation made him vulnerable but whenever we met him at home he seemed complacently, if not blissfully, unco
I’ve written recently about some of the communication challenges of Huntington’s disease. Here is another. My encounters with a Huntington’s patient frequently went like this:
Doctor: ‘How are you?’
Patient: [no response]
One of my challenges as a specialist physician was Huntington’s disease. To give you a picture, imagine 'Diane' [i] slumped in a wheelchair, stirred into speaking by something her husband has said about their 7 year old son, Will.
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.