When Professor Woodford-Williams was director of the Hospital Advisory Service (later the Health Advisory Service) in the 1970s, she...

Older people and issues of ageing have been addressed in a number of newspaper articles and letters during this week: This is the week in...

I had not looked at the Market Place section of Dementia Pathfinders website until nudged to do so as I was asked to review two...

I logged into this. An interesting meeting with a number of ideas arising which may be useful in different settings. Lucy Watson – who is...

Trawling the newspapers each week for articles which tell us about dementia and issues of ageing, I am pleased and to a degree...

Now in my late 70s I live with pain every day – one of the 28 million in Britain according to Lucy Pasha-Robinson who have chronic...

I am always pleased to find reference to my hometown – Wolverhampton. This morning I read the story of Bhagwant Sachdeva, who lives in...

Methodist churches and chapels rarely have a graveyard attached – Space for us is to be found in the municipal cemetery or grounds of...

Not a wedding to have ‘old’ matched with new, borrowed or blue – Though there were somethings made new by crafty hands and plenty of...

We have been amused by the notion of an UnBirthday as celebrated at The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party in Alice in Wonderland: a very merry...

This Easter week has been a time for reflection as we try to make some sense of a world so close to the risk of destroying itself. It has...

Michael Marmot views the consequences of growing inequality with fear: Studying health inequalities has been my life’s work. What’s...

People will know that my favourite book about dementia by someone with dementia is Robert Davis’ ‘My Journey into Alzheimer’s Disease’....

We are convinced of the power of music to get to places otherwise inaccessible for people with dementia. During the lockdowns we were...

Reading Matthew Walker’s ‘Why we sleep’ was a key experience, opening up information about new understandings of sleep and its...

When I was first learning about better services for older people with mental health problems, including dementia, something took me to...

Day after day we read headlines about the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces Russia launches multiple rocket attacks in Kharkiv and...

Monday and at 10.30am we will be walking. We have been doing it since 2014, with short interruptions for lockdowns. We do not go far –...

A very interesting piece of research reveals that the long-held view that mental processing slows progressively from the age of 20 is...

Today is a dog day for me: It began with an email from an aggrieved man asking when we are going to appoint a Dog Warden for our local...