Adventures with Dementia: NHS double standard for people with dementia in care homes

Thursday 5 May 2016

Thanks are due to the Alzheimer's Society for bringing to light what might well be described as a scandal:

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2599&_ga=1.208937239.428393088.1433590610

Whether anything will change as a result of this revelation remains to be seen.

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My wife has dementia. She first attended a memory clinic in 2000, aged 52, and suffered a marked decline in the autumn of 2011. Since then there have been some improvements, despite the fact that she has now (after 12 years investigation) been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

We try to follow the advice of our Guru: 'Live a Good Life'. It's not easy but there doesn't seem to be any better advice around.

I found myself saying to a friend that I would find my wife's condition very interesting if I wasn't so involved. I've realised now that I do find it, and the issues it raises, interesting. And that there's nothing wrong with that. It's one of the things that keeps me going. Not that I have any choice.

I think more and more that I'm a very rational person (though I'm not claiming that I always behave rationally). I have to try and make sense of things. In my current situation, this is quite a challenge. We all need challenges, they say.

I'm hoping this blog might help me, and maybe others, in some way. If I'm wrong, it won't last very long.

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Adventures with Dementia

Thursday 5 May 2016

NHS double standard for people with dementia in care homes

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