Adventures with Dementia

I know I've posted about this before but I still have very mixed feelings about the importance of a quick diagnosis. Someone asked onlin...

Apologies if this has been posted about already but I couldn't find it if it has. The atlas can be viewed here: https://shapeatlas.n...

This story has, understandably, caused quite a stir. An elderly man with dementia who has been singing publicly for many years is still able...

As we know, stories like this come along all the time but this does sound more promising: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2099108-alz...

This one happened about 5 a.m. so no chance of getting assistance unless I wanted to get the emergency services involved. I managed to stay ...

This recent piece of research may be of interest: https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2625

The respected US-based Alzforum (Working for a cure) has some thoughts on the potential effects on research of 'Brexit' (the decisio...

Some months ago, I got out our Yamaha keyboard (quite a sophisticated one left here by my younger son Joe) at our care/PS's suggestion. ...

An earlier post (16/12/15) discusses incontinence pads and pants. But as even the best of these are by no means foolproof, many people also ...

I haven't blogged much recently. I seem to be spending more time checking up on S when I'm alone here and she is resting or sleeping...

S had another fit today - the fifth, I think. This time I hadn't even got her up. I was upstairs on the exercise bike and I always have ...

A year ago yesterday S had her first fit. I've just looked back at what I wrote during the first few days after the fit and I sound pret...