What is best interest’s decision making?
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 [...]
UN Convention of Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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
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 [...]
Advanced Decisions
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Working with dementia
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. [...]
Alternative therapies for dementia
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 [...]