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So it’s Alzheimer’s Awareness Week. Well, yes please, we need plenty of that. I’ve also just spotted, in newspapers and on the...
So it’s Alzheimer’s Awareness Week. Well, yes please, we need plenty of that. I’ve also just spotted, in newspapers and on the...
Last week was pretty high profile. Barbara Windsor’s husband Scott Mitchell announced that his wife has Alzheimer’s. That immediately led to a...
I’ve decided – big gulp – to apply for attendance allowance for My Loved One. That should be “we’ve decided”, of course,...
My Mad Dad: The Diary of an Unravelling Mind, published last month, is the antithesis of “yet another Alzheimer’s book”. It’s raw,...
Barn dancing as Alzheimer’s therapy? Well why not? It’s probably a marginally better bet than some of the fragile straws you are...
Last week we – My Loved One, Ms Alzheimer’s and I – went on holiday. I hired a cottage, a converted stable...
There is a common assumption that Alzheimer’s disease – and the dementia which characterises it – is mostly about loss of memory....
As you get older you need less sleep. Right? Well, I’m not at all sure that’s true, although, if you’ve suffered from...