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  • Death and grief after Covid-19
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Thu, 02/04/2020 - 21:05

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

    Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?
  • Death and grief after Covid-19
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Thu, 02/04/2020 - 21:05

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

    Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please?
  • A pathway for dementia care or the fictional yellow brick road?
    Karen Harrison Dening Thu, 19/03/2020 - 11:35

    Care pathways have become a ubiquitous term in health and social care.
  • More power together?
    Karen Harrison Dening Tue, 17/03/2020 - 16:19

    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

  • Meanings of persistence
    Chris Ward
    Chris Ward Thu, 05/03/2020 - 09:40

    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
  • He who hesitates is lost
    Chris Ward
    Chris Ward Tue, 25/02/2020 - 18:24

    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]
  • The Body Speaks - Part One
    Chris Ward
    Chris Ward Fri, 07/02/2020 - 12:58

    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.
  • I Remain in Darkness
    Tom Dening
    Tom Dening Fri, 31/01/2020 - 14:20

    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.
  • Is dementia homeless?
    Karen Harrison Dening Mon, 13/01/2020 - 16:07

    There will be large numbers of people with dementia as the population continues to age.  Dementia is a progressive, irreversible neurodegenerative condition that greatly reduces life with one in three of the populat
  • Getting a little bit of my Steve back
    Cynthia Litchfield
    Cynthia Litchfield Fri, 10/01/2020 - 12:43

    When Steve was invited to join the Core Group, I was a little apprehensive of it being too much for him. To organise such a big event, which was a first of its type, worried me that he was taking too much on.

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