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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
National Covid Neurosis
European counties the number of people contracting the disease has increased
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David Jolley
Oct 26, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
Physical fitness and health in later life
The mix of physical and mental symptoms can be ameliorated by regular exercise.
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David Jolley
Oct 26, 20202 min read
One Sunday morning through the eyes and minds of residents
The online service came this week from our local MHA home and was presented as far as possible with and by the residents
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David Jolley
Oct 26, 20202 min read
All in a day
The webinar to India and beyond on Saturday was every bit as fascinating and moving as it could be...
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David Jolley
Oct 26, 20201 min read
Talking of trees
It is funny how messages come together and you know you are being told something.
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