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David Jolley
Jun 28, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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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David Jolley
May 27, 20222 min read
Poverty, Poverty, Knock
Michael Marmot views the consequences of growing inequality with fear: Studying health inequalities has been my life’s work. What’s...
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David Jolley
Apr 8, 20222 min read
Just walk with me
People will know that my favourite book about dementia by someone with dementia is Robert Davis’ ‘My Journey into Alzheimer’s Disease’....
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David Jolley
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Que Sera, Sera
We are convinced of the power of music to get to places otherwise inaccessible for people with dementia. During the lockdowns we were...
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David Jolley
Apr 1, 20222 min read
More on sleep and Alzheimer’s
Reading Matthew Walker’s ‘Why we sleep’ was a key experience, opening up information about new understandings of sleep and its...
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David Jolley
Apr 1, 20223 min read
A safe place – Care Homes and Community
When I was first learning about better services for older people with mental health problems, including dementia, something took me to...
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David Jolley
Apr 1, 20222 min read
For real – and regrets
Day after day we read headlines about the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces Russia launches multiple rocket attacks in Kharkiv and...
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David Jolley
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Monday – boots on
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 –...
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David Jolley
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Steady does it – at least up to 60
A very interesting piece of research reveals that the long-held view that mental processing slows progressively from the age of 20 is...
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