Exercise
We have heard this many times, in many different ways, from many different people. Exercise is good for us. I’m not here to say anything different. It is good for everyone. However [...]
We have heard this many times, in many different ways, from many different people. Exercise is good for us. I’m not here to say anything different. It is good for everyone. However [...]
Caring is a tough role, there are days when it is wonderful, rewarding and connecting and others that it is just thankless and miserable. And sometimes this can happen in the same [...]
As humans, we have been going for tens of thousands of years and some things are therefore intrinsically human and resonate with us all in different ways. The oldest paintings that have [...]
These days there are less and less veterans of World War II and those that are alive now would have been very young and not necessarily taken part in active combat. But [...]
The key issue about best interests, is that it does not become relevant if the person can make decisions for themselves. It is only when they are unable to make that decision [...]
Firstly and most importantly, people have sex, its fine, there is little enquiry that is done with the sex lives of other people, so it shouldn’t be different for people with dementia. [...]
The UK is a signatory to this convention, however the UK has not incorporated it into domestic legislation and there is no appeal to the UN for any potential breaches. So at [...]
Dementia does not necessarily mean a lack of capacity, but it might. It all depends of what the decision is being made and when it needs to be made. There can often [...]
What are they? Are they binding? Who can make one? Do I need advice? There are many questions about advanced decisions that make them difficult to understand what they do and what [...]
DNR stands for “do not resuscitate”, which is an end of life decision, but is limited to CPR, which are chest compression and having the heart re-started. This is not the only [...]