New memoir details carer’s nightmares
My Mad Dad: The Diary of an Unravelling Mind, published last month, is the antithesis of “yet another Alzheimer’s book”. It’s raw,...
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...
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra finished the season in fine festive fettle. I don’t often laugh aloud in the concert hall but there...
It was a concert full of drama, mostly Russian, under Stephen Bell’s incisive baton. The drama included the conductor literally leaping up...
Just occasionally Ms Alzheimer’s presents me with a little bonus – something that’s actually quite useful as opposed to destructive. It’s reasonably...