September 2019
Back in 2010, the Butterfly Scheme was just starting to go into hospitals and Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust was a very early applicant, adopting the scheme early in 2011. […]
August 2019
Visiting a much-loved relative, living with dementia and now
in nursing care, I reflected this month on how easy it was for me to interact
with her, but how tricky it […]
July 2019
I get really wound up when people talk about
“identification schemes”. Identification is an admin tool, nothing more; it’s
what an identifier triggers that might, or might not, deserve the description
of […]
June 2019
When I was invited to speak about dementia to a group of
Year 6 pupils at a school in my area, I was delighted to accept. This was an
opportunity to […]
May 2019
Writing this in National Dementia Action Week, I’m
reflecting on the dementia community – for two reasons.
The first is that, earlier in the month, I was back in
County Mayo to […]