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The Care Quality Commission finds that care homes serving more self-funders provide better quality of care than those used by more...
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David Jolley
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
Trusting
I remember an article in a Sunday newspaper many years ago – probably The Observer- though it was while I was a student in London and I...
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David Jolley
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Assisted dying
These covid months have brought death closer to the lived experience of many of us. More friends and relatives have died. More have died...
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David Jolley
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Gold or cold old age?
The image of last week from the Guardian comes with the sketch made by Van Gogh of Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland in 1882 – the sketch has...
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David Jolley
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Funding social care and health care
By David Jolley It is a start. Perhaps begrudgingly I have to be glad that the current Conservative Government has made clear that we...
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David Jolley
- Sep 10, 2021
- 2 min
Clare Wenger – Close to us
By David Jolley Over the years you meet people, have time together and then go about separate business but never forget the impact they...
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David Jolley
- Aug 30, 2021
- 3 min
Togetherness on line
By David Jolley We are beginning to feel the water of a return to meeting close-up with others we may not know intimately. It feels...
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David Jolley
- Aug 23, 2021
- 2 min
Nothing wrong?
By David Jolley We were presented with a series of beautiful brain scans – showing no pathology in a middle aged woman who had complained...
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David Jolley
- Aug 16, 2021
- 2 min
New lamps for old?
By David Jolley This week an enthusiastic friend rang to say that doctors will soon be unnecessary in the diagnosis of dementia. He had...
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David Jolley
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
Merely to follow Providence as it emerges
By David Jolley This comes from work on the park this weekend. Faced with a tangle of brambles sprouting from a ledge quite high up on a...
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David Jolley
- Aug 2, 2021
- 3 min
Asylums – places of refuge or fear
By David Jolley Claire Hilton is Historian in Residence at the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has been involved in a range of...
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David Jolley
- Nov 2, 2020
- 2 min
I am just not sure about this
It is clear that the rising number of people with Covid 19, and increasing numbers requiring hospital care, with some going on to death,...
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
The way people live is important
We are living with hyperarousal generated by fear of COVID-19.
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 1 min
Comfort and inspiration near to home
You can feel we are drowning in the daily deluge of information, exhortations, angst and frequently changing rules about Covid-19.
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Breaking out
This week has seen the imposition of more restrictions on people’s activities in attempts to reduce the spread of Covid-19
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Covid cultures
Restrictions across all age groups and most places are the order of the day to save us all from Covid-19.
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
National Covid Neurosis
European counties the number of people contracting the disease has increased
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Thinking with your hands
I was drawn to the report that the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg is offering scholarships to students to explore the concept of ‘active
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Starting Early
Still buoyed up by the good news from the Lancet Commission that up to 40% of dementia worldwide could be avoided...
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David Jolley
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Physical fitness and health in later life
The mix of physical and mental symptoms can be ameliorated by regular exercise.
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