It seems like such a simple thing, to have a shower, but...... Dementia is a complex and progressive neurological condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Among the numerous challenges faced by [...]
In an aging world, the prevalence of dementia continues to rise, making it one of the most pressing global health concerns. Dementia is not a specific disease but an umbrella term for [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]