Alcohol and dementia
Lots of people drink alcohol, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. And as this is common with lots of people, it will be common for people living with dementia. Some of them [...]
Lots of people drink alcohol, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. And as this is common with lots of people, it will be common for people living with dementia. Some of them [...]
People need to eat, it is part of the human condition and although we can go for periods of time with some abstinence, if we stop eating, we eventually die, it is [...]
For the last 2 and a bit years the public health messaging has gone something along the lines of “stay at home” “outside is dangerous” “other people are dangerous” “stay away from [...]
There are some great schemes for people to continue to work or contribute for as long as they can and this has been shown to slow down any progression of the disease. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Eventually death will come for each of us, its inevitability is well understood! Death and dying are often very difficult subjects for people to talk about, there is a deep sense 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 [...]
Becoming a primary family carer is a job that no-one applied for and no-one wants, but sometimes it is forced upon by circumstance and they have little or no choice. There will [...]