I want to start this blog by sharing a graphic from a social media post from a wonderful friend and colleague, Nicola Payne: The graphic Nicky shared got me thinking about myself and my friends and family, but also about…
Tag: carers
Resolve to challenge assumptions about independence
Without a doubt, the topic of how to support independence has seen the biggest volume of training enquiries for me in 2022 (I touched on this in my September 2022 blog). I attribute many of these enquiries to the post-Covid…
What makes everything ok?
“It’ll all be ok.” A common phrase we all use when we want to reassure someone. However, for people with dementia it’s not always that helpful. Yes, it offers a low-level of verbal reassurance, but that may not be understood, and…
Women’s raw deal on dementia
As I was compiling a roundup of the last six months of dementia news for MacIntyre’s Dementia Special Interest Group recently, one story jumped out at me: “In 2020, 46,000 women died from dementia, almost twice as many as men (24,000)…
Are you in the 15% or the 85%?
I see a lot of dementia statistics in my work, but none have shocked me more than that which Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) published on 21 September 2022 as they launched their 2022 World Alzheimer’s Report. ADI said: “Up to 85%…
