These are the heart-breaking words of 98-year old Yvonne Grant, calling for someone to help her to the toilet in secret filming captured by her family and aired by Panorama ‘Behind Closed Doors: Elderly Care Exposed’. In this hour-long programme,…
Category: D4Dementia
Troubleshooting checklist
Advanced dementia brings many challenges for the person living with it and also their family and carer(s). Not only can you often feel like you need to be a bit of a detective for your loved one (as I described…
A loss of innocence
As those of you who read this blog post last year will know, April is a difficult month for my family. While the spring flowers come into full bloom, the lambs scamper in the fields and the temperatures warm up, this…
The digestive balance
You know that feeling you get after a meal when you’ve eaten a bit too much and although you loved the meal you are wishing you had shown a bit more restraint? Commonly known as indigestion, something I suspect all…
Amour
There is something universal about the language of love. Across the world we may have many different words for it but the meaning remains the same, and most importantly of all the endless ways of demonstrating it transcend barriers. There…
