Is the measure of a society the contentment of its older people? God seems to think so. Describing the coming peace and prosperity of Jerusalem,
Don’t be alarmed by reports of a coming dementia tsunami, or forecasts that one in three people born this year will have dementia as adults.
Yesterday afternoon I spent an interesting half hour or so talking with executives of a local social housing provider. Bron Hafon Housing Association hosted a
Sitting over a cup of tea I was explaining to my IT wizard why I was so pleased the assisted suicide bill had been rejected
A group of experts who specialise in end of life care warn that vulnerable people will be put at risk if MPs back the Assisted
Last evening I went with my English friend, Fran, to our local Stadium, to hear the Pontnewydd Male Voice Choir, with guest singer Wynne Evans
Impossible, you’d think. Yet Belgium, where assisted suicide/euthanasia has been law for 13 years, allows its doctors to kill patients they judge to have a
My husband would be delighted with the news. When we lived in the Middle East he insisted that a mid-day nap was good for you.
Our next conference is in Godalming Baptist Church, on 26th September. The focus is on dementia: how to avoid it, recognising it, making sure it’s
Researchers at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health say the UK is not heading for a dementia epidemic of the scale initially feared, after all.
Some years ago I worked on a mission to street children, in Guadalajara, Mexico. We used to take out food and drink and sit with
In my last post I said the date of the Assisted Suicide Bill is 18th September – BUT IT’S SOONER THAN THAT – it’s on
Journalist Matthew Syed wrote that his grandfather, who died at the age of 98, had been the most compelling man he has ever met. He
Most of us do it – contemplate our future and imagine what it will be like. And how we see that future depends very much
Andrew Brown realised something was wrong when he couldn’t fit his key into the lock of his front door. Then he noticed that the wooden
Shocking figures in Japan show that ‘frail, grey-haired figures’ are committing more crimes than youngsters. What on earth is driving older people, who are
At the Hay Festival a few weeks ago, the main scriptwriter for the BBC’s ’Archers’ programme said its older characters were ‘national treasurers.’ He said
‘Different cultures have different perceptions of mental illnesses – including dementia,’ begins an article on the NSPCC website flagged up by the Guardian newspaper today.
‘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
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