Having spent 19-years graduating in dementia, I can honestly say that I think I know dementia pretty well. Its highs and lows, the surprises and quirks, the sadness and pain, and the endless battles you fight for the care your…
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How do you do it?
The question I have probably been asked more than any other over the last few years is how do you cope with having a loved one with dementia? There is no easy or short answer to that, but overwhelming I…
Don’t wait for a ‘crisis point’
I heard a pretty shocking statistic at yesterday’s Alzheimer’s Society conference. Two thirds of people living with dementia NEVER get an official diagnosis; if that same statistic applied to the diagnosis of cancer, and as a result two thirds of…
Continuity is key
Last week a story hit the headlines about how Jeanette Maitland’s husband Ken, who was living with dementia, had been given 106 different carers during the last year of his life. Mr Maitland, from Aberdeen, had been allocated two carers…