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…
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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…
Can we really ‘Do something better together’?
Given that healthcare was, for a very long time, a closed shop in terms of opportunities for patient input and examples of the NHS listening to the lived experience, we can but applaud initiatives like NHS Change Day and NHS…
The corners of your mind
I’m a bit of a fan of all things vintage, as you might have gathered given my love of our older generations. Music is no exception to this rule, hence the title of this blog post coming from a much…
Being a pain detective
One of the questions I’m asked a lot in relation to dementia care is around how we find out if someone is in pain. In advanced dementia, when potentially a person cannot articulate clearly if they are in pain, and…
