#Dementia

T-15mins to our last public lecture for 2019! Dr Matthew Pase will be discussing the question, Can healthy lifestyles help lower the risk of dementia? If you cant make it

Our final panelist, Dr Alison Dawson, Senior Research Fellow at @StirUni, is now speaking about the lessons that we can take from #COVID19 in relation to #dementia design. "When we

1 Trump made a dementia confession at his rally when he projected "that’s what happens when you can’t get the words out, you get angry...Might happen to me someday." It

A note now on BPSD. BPSD is an acronym coined to refer to 'behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia'. This was a term coined by a drug company, for a

Later this morning one of @alzheimerssoc's storytellers will be talking to the @CommonsHealth committee about the huge costs her and her husband have faced due to his dementia. Because there

I truly find it surprising that basically everyone thought this was fine. Consider alternatives: orienting him and using it as a way to spend more time with him, building his

#Futility: Do you place feeding tubes in your practice for older adults with advanced dementia? @SIRRFS @SIRspecialists @BSIR_News @AmCollSurgeons Discussion below Guideline recommendation: Feeding tubes are not recommended for older

Would y’all like me to give you some little “tests” that you can give your older relative to see if they might have dementia? One of the signs I noticed

ONS has put out some very interesting data today about people dying in their own homes. As I've reported before this is a issue which hasn't received enough attention. Indeed,

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Seriously please do not turn The Caretaker into some weird online challenge. IT'S NOT A MEME. IT'S NOT SOME TEST OF ENDURANCE.IT IS A REAL DEPICTION OF A DEADLY DISEASE

Casual reminder that the people saying that Joe Biden has Dementia obviously dont know very much about Dementia. Dementia is more than just: this person is a little bit forgetful.

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It's Alzheimer's Awareness day tomorrow. Just over 3 weeks before she died in March, my mother was finally diagnosed with mixed dementia (Alzheimers and vascular). I say finally, because I

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As anyone who has read me for the last year or so knows, I don't think the president has had a stroke or mini-strokes, I think he has dementia. It

Tim Shakespeare

Read this report on COVID-19 and people affected by dementia. It brings together evidence from a wide range of sources and paints a stark picture of the effects of the

This, while not unexpected for anyone who has been paying attention, is an absolute outrage. Will we look up from our day-to-day concerns and pay attention? Will we actually *see*

Dementia takes 5 stages for the affected person to have mild difficulty performing simple everyday tasks. It takes on average 10 years to get to that stage, meaning Britney Spears