I and my friends living with dementia are all different, but most of us have symptoms that have not yet become severe. Indeed, they may never develop a lot further. We believe that the more we use …

To… The Chief Executive and the Chair of Trustees Ms Dyson and Ms Leather Alzheimer’s Society Suite 2 1st Floor East Wing Plumer House Tailyour Road Plymouth PL6 5FS 3rd June 2026 Dear Ms Dys…

To… The Chief Executive and the Chair of Trustees Ms Dyson and Ms Leather Alzheimer’s Society Suite 2 1st Floor East Wing Plumer House Tailyour Road Plymouth PL6 5FS 3rd June 2026 Dear Ms Dys…

How do I know I exist? When I studied Camus and Sartre in the 70s I found it hard to understand the concept of existence. Is it religious? Do I exist because I believe in there being a God who crea…

No, mum. You can’t go out on your own! Oh I’d better come with you. You might slip on those rocks… Here’s some cotton wool to roll you in… Risk and safeguarding, two key elements of living as you c…

I need to write. After three weeks of sub zero cryotherapy in my brain it is time to shake myself off. I feel dull, faint, distant, drugged – although I am no more drugged than usual – …

If you have read my writings in previous years you will know that Christmas brings noise, clamour and many urges to restrain small people. So this year something different. For 2026. For in 2026 we…

Here’s another go at dementia numbers, and the devastation that surrounds dementia. One or two of us (with dementia) have become increasingly upset about the way numbers and predictions are being t…

Here is an extract from a BBC website news report today. ‘…a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study said there had been little improvement in those affecting the oesophagus, stomach a…

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What have we done to deserve this? Good question. What indeed? Let’s start with what “this” is? Well, I’m talking about dementia, as you would expect. But this “this” varies enormously. Everyone’s …

Dear Alzheimers Society, What do you think you are doing? What are you hoping to achieve? Why are you putting out your intensely untrue and cruel advertisement? People living with dementia do not d…

I am really pleased that a few memory services are changing their name to Dementia Assessment and Support Service. DASS seems to be the favoured (the only?) acronym. I remember that my dad used to …

A reminder…people living with dementia are still people I will not disclose the trigger for this piece, but I am more and more and more concerned and annoyed by the continuing paradigm about dement…

(Slings and arrows, etc etc) Why do I write blogs? What am I trying to achieve? I started about ten years ago, I think. Soon after I had been diagnosed with mixed dementia, aged 62. I met other peo…

For Social Prescribing Day, the SPLENDID project team shares how the project is ensuring social prescribing remains effective and beneficial for people living with dementia and their carers. We hear f...

Where is the care for those living with dementia when they need it? Of course, I include family and other unpaid care givers in this, because there often comes a time when they cannot (and should n…

‘Dementia is not a death sentence’ - that’s the message from the organisers of course that is being run in Shrewsbury.

Exclusive: The GMC will not take into account other bodies' scopes of practice for physician associates (PAs) when regulation begins.