Anyone over 50 lives in dread of the big A
This is a quote from Dr Richard Restak in an article written for the Guardian by Gaby Hinsliff. Now 80 Restak is still active in the...
Encouraging togetherness and learning in dementia care
for the 12th National Dementia Care Awards
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David Jolley
- Aug 24
- 3 min
‘Brain Fog’
The impact of Covid-19 on our lives has been immense – it continues to be hugely important though the intensity of interest and fear...
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David Jolley
- Aug 24
- 2 min
Shelagh Robertson’s case – verdict of insanity by dementia
A tragic and alarming case is reported by the Guardian and other national newspapers, which describes how the driving exhibited by 75...
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David Jolley
- Aug 24
- 2 min
It isn’t rocket science – or is it?
We have been rejoicing in the experience of working with like-minded people on prospects to improve services for people with dementia and...
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David Jolley
- Aug 5
- 2 min
As you were
It was good to read about Historic England’s project to give some publicity to the lives and communities of ordinary people in humble...
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David Jolley
- Jul 26
- 2 min
BC
I am sure I am not the first to muse on BC having become ‘Before Covid’ more often than Before Christ. Before Covid – at this time of...
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David Jolley
- Jul 26
- 2 min
Bread of life
Muddling through the newspapers and other media matters looking for references to older people, people with dementia and related...
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David Jolley
- Jul 19
- 3 min
Adversity
Our on-line meeting of Dementia Conversations was an emotional sharing: A had been supported in her submission for NHS Continuing Care...
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David Jolley
- Jul 7
- 2 min
Digital rant:
Moves to conduct most business, including that concerned with health and care, using computerised internet systems are divisive – and...
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David Jolley
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Failure of care
When Professor Woodford-Williams was director of the Hospital Advisory Service (later the Health Advisory Service) in the 1970s, she...
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David Jolley
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Celebrating Age:
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...
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David Jolley
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Market Place
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...
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David Jolley
- Jun 13
- 2 min
The AGM of the Patients Association online 26.5.22
I logged into this. An interesting meeting with a number of ideas arising which may be useful in different settings. Lucy Watson – who is...
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David Jolley
- Jun 9
- 2 min
Clues to ageing and more from the blood
Trawling the newspapers each week for articles which tell us about dementia and issues of ageing, I am pleased and to a degree...
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David Jolley
- May 27
- 2 min
Chronic pain and dementia:
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...
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David Jolley
- May 27
- 2 min
Home truths
I am always pleased to find reference to my hometown – Wolverhampton. This morning I read the story of Bhagwant Sachdeva, who lives in...
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David Jolley
- May 27
- 2 min
Churchyards:
Methodist churches and chapels rarely have a graveyard attached – Space for us is to be found in the municipal cemetery or grounds of...
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David Jolley
- May 27
- 2 min
Something old
Not a wedding to have ‘old’ matched with new, borrowed or blue – Though there were somethings made new by crafty hands and plenty of...
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David Jolley
- May 27
- 2 min
An Unhappy Birthday
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...
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David Jolley
- May 27
- 2 min
Friends in green spaces:
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...
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