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Dementia and Mental Activity
Both my parents had dementia. So whenever research is published suggesting some way of avoiding dementia, I am interested. A recent edition of the online publication Neurology...
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Travel Insurance and Dementia
Jo’s Dad has Frontal Lobe Dementia. Her brother and his family live in the States. Jo, her husband and two children have never visited. Too busy supporting her Mum since her Dad’s diagnosis 4 years...
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Caring in the News Again!
Caring is in the news again. The Government is suggesting, in a White Paper to be brought out later this year, that Local Authorities should have a legal duty to support those who care for elderly and...
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Reflections on The Fear of Dependence
I have been thinking about dependence. In my experience people of all ages viscerally reject the idea. We do not want to be cared for. No-one says they are looking forward to being cared for. They’d...
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Self-Funded Care: An Even Worse Deal?
I am worried about a friend of mine. In her case it is carers (professional ones) that are causing the problem. This friend is 72. She has had the disease Lupus for most of her life and two years ago...
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Down Memory Lane
Last Thursday I went on a pilgrimage to Poynton, my parents’ village. I have never forgotten how wonderful everyone was when first Dad, and then Mum, became ill. So I had written to the vicar offering...
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Beyond Dilnot at the King’s Fund
On Tuesday I spoke at the ‘Beyond Dilnot’ conference, at the King’s Fund in London. The first speaker was Andrew Dilnot, the author of the report that, were it to be accepted, would revolutionise...
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Dementia and Hospitals
One of the ‘catch up’ blogs in the Keeping Mum (p. 212/3) described my having been knocked off my bike by a bus, and spending the night in hospital. I hardly slept. Not just because of all the wires...
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Caring for Carers
September 6th would have been Mum’s 92nd birthday. She always said, for some reason, that she expected to live to 93. Wrong by 4 years. Given her condition in the last few years of her life, I am...
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Mum’s Precious Possessions
8 years ago I had one month between exchanging contracts and Mum’s arrival. In that month I decorated, fitted new carpets, an isolation valve to the cooker, window and door locks, swept the chimneys...
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