‘There’s a programme on Radio 4 right now, about dementia,’ texted a colleague today. So I tuned in and caught the interview with Keith Oliver,
At a national conference last year on dementia my colleague Janet took the microphone during question time and asked why the pressure on GPs to
The weather puts me in mind of the summer of 2003, when 3,000 people died in a prolonged heat wave in Paris. The press said
As you know, we support a culture of living, not dying. We know from Belgium and the Netherlands that making euthanasia legal is the start
Thousands of older people have been ‘euthanized’ in Belgium, according to the Journal of Medical Ethics. If you’re old and ill and live in Belgium,
I’m so delighted to hear viewers’ responses to Dementiaville, aired on Channel 4 last evening. It took place in a care home where residents with
He may not know it, but physicist Dr Klein has proven the powerful truth of a Scripture verse written over 2,000 years ago. He
If I needed hospital treatment the last person I’d like to see at my bedside is the Health Minister Jeremy Hunt. Just the sight of
From today, councils will no longer have the right to set their own criteria when it comes to eligibility for funding for care. It’s one
About 500,000 vulnerable old people in England rely on carers coming in and helping them each day. Sometimes their carers are the only people they
Council cuts £10 a day care plan, so now Grandma becomes a ‘bed blocker’ costing the NHS £2,000 a week Grandmother Mary Delf has become trapped
‘Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Speak out … to defend the needy and the poor,’ says
‘I never thought that I would attend a conference on issues of old age and dementia, and come away feeling so full of joy.’ ‘We’d
You couldn’t make it up. Elderly and disabled people are being ‘put up for auction’ by local councils on ‘eBay-style’ websites, with care firms then
Japan gave the world the Walkman, Samsung phones and a host of hi-tech innovation. Now a small Japanese community went back to basics to beat
How will you avoid loneliness in your old age? It might be the most important thing you could plan for, more than your pension, perhaps.
‘Are older people in care homes missing out on quality time with staff because workers are preoccupied with paperwork?’ is the lead in question in
In the week of December 8-14, 440,428 people walked through the doors of A&E departments in England. In the equivalent week in 2011, that figure
Raise a glass to Ember Inns! Each one of its pubs is allocating a table on Christmas Day to lonely older people from the local
The family of 70 year old Elizabeth Anang did everything right after she’d been diagnosed with dementia. Her husband looked after her while he was
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