On this carers rights day, I thought it would be useful to reflect on some of the key arguments in my recently published book, Duties to Care: Dementia, Relationality and Law. This book, which is the latest publication founded on data collected from the dementia project Duties to Care research,…
Category: Research
Diagnosis: Let’s look at what happens in practice
Posted in Dementia Awareness Week, Diagnosis, and Research
Getting a diagnosis of a dementia can be a very complicated process. It not only involves the patient themselves, but family members or friends, a number of different health professionals, and various assessments and medical tests. If a person is experiencing symptoms of a less common form of dementia, is…
Last month the National Care Forum published a welcome good practice paper focusing on dementia care and LGBT communities. It includes discussion of the ‘Over the Rainbow’ project that I did last year with some support from DEEP, The Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project. The National Care Forum’s paper offers…