Nov 10, 2014
Since returning from the Alzheimer Europe conference in Glasgow I’ve been thinking a lot about stigma and why it clings to dementia. It simply didn’t exist at all for the three days I was there, replaced instead by a stimulating buzz of optimism and positive...
Oct 26, 2014
The tone of the 2014 Alzheimer Europe conference was set from the moment I arrived and bumped straight into the force of nature that is Helga Rohra. I’d read about this 60-year-old German – and listened to her powerful words – many times, but never met her in person. ...
Oct 20, 2014
This is the story of how a (very tall) man found his vocation. It started in 2000 when an indomitable woman moved into a care home that failed to see her for who she was. Nine years later – via France and India – her son-in-law Tim Lloyd-Yeates set up a charity...
Oct 3, 2014
Silver Sunday. How easily it slides off the tongue. It’s happening this weekend so it seemed a good subject to write about. I’m sure many people will have mixed views about it; I thought I was one of them. But having carried out a bit of research I’m far...
Sep 26, 2014
Rachel Mortimer is an artist. She is also a qualified Montessori teacher and, among other jobs she’s held, she’s worked as a carer. At the moment she’s studying for an Open University psychology degree. She’s clearly someone with many strings to her bow. But the...
Sep 19, 2014
At the end of a White Paper on change and transformation in the NHS comes a case study from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. It involves a seemingly simple, grassroots project called Living Well, in which older people have collaborated with voluntary sector...
