Christmas for people with dementia
Lots of people have mixed feelings about Christmas. People can love it, love the presents, the sparkle, the food and seeing all their friends and family. Other people hate it, as everyone [...]
The shock of rapid decline
We all know that death is coming, even though most of us don’t like to think about it that much. We just don’t know when and how and so we live our [...]
Agoraphobia as a result of lockdown
I recently met with an elderly couple who had been active in their community until lockdown. Whilst they recognised that they were both elderly and had some frailties and one of them [...]
Frontal Temporal Lobe Dementia
Frontal temporal lobe dementia is a complex condition. It is not easy to diagnose, as often the classical signs of dementia are not present, so dementia is not the first thought about [...]
The importance of the living environment for people living with dementia
The space that we live in is important to us all and can have a big impact on the wellbeing of people affected by dementia. There are two key issues to the [...]
Sundowning
Sundowning is documented as something that is known to happen, but it is not well understood why it happens and what the triggers are. What has been noted, is that there has [...]
Grief for the dying
A friend of mine that I hadn’t seen for a while told me why she had been so withdrawn, her father was dying. The way that she described it made me think [...]
I think that my loved one is afraid to die
I have heard this a lot recently. Families see their loved ones in a very frail and unwell state and believe that dying would end their misery, but they aren’t dying. And [...]
Faith and dementia
It can be argued that all people who are looking after someone have some kind of faith, faith that things might turn out OK that day, faith in their own ability to [...]
Asking for help
This seems like such a simple thing to do, but we don’t! I hear lots of stories about how people struggle on in supporting a person with dementia for lots of reasons, [...]