Earlier this month saw the annual Carers Week, which included a campaign to pledge support by saying ‘I care’. As a nation we should all care – chances in are most people’s lifetimes they will either be a carer or know…
Category: D4Dementia
Learning from personal diagnosis stories
Over the 20+ years since my dad was diagnosed with dementia, I’ve often thought about what his diagnosis experience was like from his perspective. We never talked about it, and of course now we’ll never be able to. Our understanding…
Becoming the patient
I’ve been fortunate for most of my life to be pretty healthy. Even having my two children only resulted in one night in hospital for my first birth. So, my recent three nights in hospital came completely out of the…
Be in The Kindness Club
You can’t buy it (not genuinely anyway) and you can’t teach it. It’s also the one quality I hold in higher regard than any other. What am I talking about? Kindness. For me, kindness is non-negotiable, and it’s always been…
Hearing loss and dementia – Don’t ignore the link!
I talk about it in many of my training sessions, I’ve highlighted it in meetings and on social media, and recently it featured on BBC Radio 5 Live as a lady from the RNID told the breakfast presenter about how…
