Category Archives: Dementia

Dementia Repeats Itself

Posted on October 28, 2018 by john graham

Sufferers of dementia are renowned for their forgetfulness and recognised by their tendency to repeat the same questions over and over. I first came across this when I opened a nursing home called Newfield House in Coventry in … Continue reading →

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Sugar Confusion ?

Posted on September 30, 2018 by john graham

Don’t go to Chicago if you have got a sweet tooth. The American Alzheimer’s Association has just declared that consuming two and a half teaspoons of added sugar a day raises the risk of you developing Dementia by 54% ! … Continue reading →

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Eat Your Greens

Posted on January 2, 2018 by john graham

What a wonderful Christmas present. A cure to fend off dementia may be within our grasp. A study at Rush University in Chicago shows that eating more green vegetables may stave off dementia. The Government is always keen to … Continue reading →

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Dementia Back in the News

Posted on December 14, 2017 by john graham

At the beginning of this month I wrote a blog about the news not being new but just repeating itself. I could have dug deeper and concluded the the main reason news repeats itself is the nothing gets … Continue reading →

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Dolphins, Dementia and Swimming

Posted on November 5, 2017 by john graham

“Incredibly interesting” are the words Professor Simon Lovestone an old age psychiatrist at Oxford University uses to describe a study of dolphins with dementia. It is a collaboration between researchers in Florida and Scotland based on examining the brains of … Continue reading →

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Dementia Friendly Hospitals?

Posted on October 26, 2017 by john graham

The Government has announced a new iniative on this, which is to spend £50million making hospitals and Care Homes “dementia friendly” . I am intrigued, because hospitals by their very nature are strange environments for people with dementia. What … Continue reading →

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Do it yourself Dementia Care.

Posted on August 3, 2017 by john graham

In their desperation to cope with the tsunami of dementia that is overwhelming the NHS some clinicians are resorting to consulting staff and even relatives of patients. An interesting report of an audit by the Royal Chollege of … Continue reading →

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Dementia won’t go away.

Posted on July 27, 2017 by john graham

I wrote about the growing problem of dementia only a week ago and stories are starting to appear in the press every other day. In fact I have been writing about the subject ever since I started this blog. … Continue reading →

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Oranges might slow down Dementia.

Posted on July 13, 2017 by john graham

I wrote a lot about dementia the early days of this blog. ( You can see all the posts on this subject by clicking on Dementia in the Topics List). I rather gave up after writing about … Continue reading →

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Dementia won’t go away !

Posted on July 11, 2017 by john graham

Dementia is definitely one of the diseases of the day. If not the disease of the day. This is not so much dementia week, as the dementia era. It is an illness which nobody really understands and for which there … Continue reading →

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