Dementia does not necessarily mean a lack of capacity
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 [...]
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 [...]
When there is university academic research, there has to be an ethics consideration and some of the experiments that were done in the past are no longer possible, because of the ethics [...]
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 [...]
When anyone talks about another human being, if you feel that you have little in common or just plain and simple don’t like them, it is easy to slip into language that [...]
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 [...]
We just don’t need it! When someone looks at us and in our head we think “I know what you are thinking……”. We might, but we might not, it might just be [...]
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 [...]
As well as medication, which is suitable for some dementias, additionally there is also cognitive behaviour therapy, which is helpful as a social care support strategies. There is also pet therapy, walking [...]
People can have problems with language, either understanding words or saying words, but sometimes it does not mean that they don’t understand more about what is going on than their lack of [...]
There was a study done that indicates that there may be a link to loneliness and the increased incidence of developing dementia. They have described the link as “tentative”. However they have [...]