Lipstick can enhance a smile and defines its wearer as female. It is an important communication tool, says Penny Dodds. Author/s: Penny Dodds For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Rose wanted John to maintain the position he had always held in the family – the best father and the most important man in the world to his children. But her attempts to hide his dementia from them led to increasing stress, as Jane Gilliard describes. Author/s: Jane Gilliard For the full article please see…...
GPs have been criticised for their failure to make the diagnosis of dementia that could open access to vital support services for carers. Steve Iliffe argues that GPs have the diagnostic skills, but many other factors get in the way. He makes specific proposals to improve training and audit services. Author/s: Steve Iliffe For the…...
Continuing our clinical teaching series, Dr Robert Tobiansky describes the many routes of current research and development in the search for a pharmacological treatment for dementia. Author/s: Robert Tobiansky For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is available if you subscribe....
Closure of long-stay institutions must continue to the end, argues Tony Whitehead, but failure to develop proper community care could lead to the kind of scandals that led them to be established in the first place. Author/s: Tony Whitehead For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC…...
Recent research from the United States holds out the possibility of a simple neurobiological test for Alzheimer’s disease. In the first of two articles on the social and ethical consequences of new research, Harry Cayton looks at the benefits and problems of an accurate diagnostic test. Author/s: Harry Cayton For the full article please see…...
Sally Furnish describes a project on carer participation in services for people with dementia and older people with mental illness is South Glamorgan, set up by a small specialist team with a developmental remit. Author/s: Sally Furnish For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive is…...
When Ward 13 began to develop an activities programme for residents some staff were scathing and negative. But the results, assessed after only a short time, have astounded committed staff and won over even the most sceptical, as Helen Nairn reports. Author/s: Helen Nairn For the full article please see the PDF download linked to…...
Brian Roycroft, newly-appointed chairman of the Alzheimer’s Disease Society, brings to the post long experience of social services and local government, vital in a time of persisting uncertainty over community care. Profile by Sue Benson. Author/s: Sue Benson For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right. The full JDC archive…...
Finding someone wet or soiled is no good reason to label them incontinent, writes Graham Stokes in this first of three articles on toileting difficulty in dementia. Instead of labelling, we should begin the process of finding out why. Author/s: Graham Stokes For the full article please see the PDF download linked to the right…....