Milton S (2024) Dementia Diaries. Journal of Dementia Care 32(4) 10. The Alzheimer’s Society video in which the narrator says that people with dementia “die again and again” has provoked a strong reaction amongst dementia diarists. We have had many frank and honest discussions about this video in our weekly Dementia Diarist ZOOMs. While the...
Milton S (2023) Dementia Diaries: Tony Husband. Journal of Dementia Care 31(6)13-14. On Tuesday November 14 there was the funeral of Tony Husband. More than 1,500 people turned out to pay their respects to a much-loved man, who did so much for people living with dementia. A lot has been written about Tony in the...
Every week we hold a Dementia Diarists Zoom meeting. We’ve been doing this since the start of lockdown, and have spent more than 200 hours together over that time. It’s a very relaxed group, and have become very close during the last three years. We share news, discuss topics of the moment, and sometimes we...
It’s often easy to underestimate the challenges that people with dementia can face. Many describe the gulf between the calm and competent exterior they can sometimes present to the world, and the hard work that goes on under the bonnet to keep that going. …..“like a graceful swan with the legs underneath going like the...
Milton S (2022) Dementia Diaries. Journal of Dementia Care 30(6) 14 One of the things which people often say about Dementia Diaries is how positive they are. Positive about life in general, and about living with dementia in particular. People with dementia often go to great lengths to “put on a good face”, especially in...