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For a while now I’ve been working on a book that explores the relationship between health and reading (reading aloud in particular). I’ve made steady progress, including a recent interview I conducted with the former poet laureate Andrew Motion.
Gosh! This month’s exciting news is that Growing Support’s work enabling people with dementia to stay socially and physically active has received national recognition. We have been selected as one of the Observer’s 50 New Radicals for 2016.
Both hearing loss and dementia become very common as people get older and it is therefore to be expected that a lot of people will have both problems eventually.
Both hearing loss and dementia become very common as people get older and it is therefore to be expected that a lot of people will have both problems eventually.
It was a real life, I think, those days
Of fairgrounds, brandy-snaps and hook-a-duck,
Singing on waltzers, we were children in love
With sugared lips and clasping foxglove bouquets...
A joint survey recently published by the CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) and Westfield Health explores the growing trend of ‘working Carers’.
I am the person who fights unwinnable battles and batters her head against walls that will never come down.
Today, yet again, I woke up in a bed away from home. To be precise, I woke up at my father’s house. This has become familiar after many years of visiting for long periods to support him with his increasing health needs. But today was different.
Becoming a dementia friendly organisation is no longer about satisfying some altruistic need or Community Social Responsibility policy. It is a matter of complying with equality legislation.
The help that is available is tremendous in every way.