May 19, 2015
This blog is dedicated to Tommy and Tony. Two men who each, in their very different ways, are helping to improve the lives of people with dementia. First up is Liverpudlian Tommy Dunne, who this week – Dementia Awareness Week (#DAW2015) – opened what is believed to...
Apr 24, 2015
Dementia Friendly. A phrase so frequently bandied about it’s in danger of losing its value. Over one million of us in the UK (including me) have attended a session on how to be a dementia friend and earned the right to wear a badge declaring that we are one. Fair...
Apr 11, 2015
Though I never met him I feel that I knew George Arthur Moss who was, to use his own words, “a fairly quiet man with a good sense of humour”. Others describe him as caring and gentle. George died in 2008 aged 86, having been diagnosed with dementia four years...
Mar 22, 2015
Margaret Miller sets quite a challenge to ageism. Just take a look at her photo – she’s the one on the left with the stylish hat, the other woman is somebody called Kimberley Walsh. You might think that, at 104 – yes that’s right, one hundred and four, I too...
Mar 10, 2015
It’s NHS Change Day so I’ve decided to dedicate this week’s blog to someone who exemplifies everything it stands for. She is, to use her own words, a disruptor and a radical who wants to bring about change. She’s a boat-rocker, a distinguished member of the Twitter...
Feb 25, 2015
I’m old enough to remember where I was when John Lennon died – helped by the fact that his shocking, untimely death occurred on my birthday. I was in my second year at Southampton university, vaguely getting to grips with how to cook for myself and occasionally...
