Milton S (2025) Using Dementia Diaries to create an AI to support people newly-diagnosed Journal of Dementia Care 33(2) 10. Many people have told us over the years about how they felt when they first got their diagnosis of dementia. They describe feeling uncertain, afraid, and lost with a sense of little hope for the…...
Oliver K (2025) Talking with Dementia Reconsidered: An inside view. Journal of Dementia Care 33(2)18-20. Keith Oliver, with help from Chloe Gillen and Evie Mitchell, describes the process of planning, compiling and writing this landmark book — the first of its kind to be written by and with experts by experience, people living with dementia…...
Celebrations in the world of people living with dementia Who would have thought that there would be anything to celebrate about having dementia? If you’ve watched the latest media portrayal of Nigel in Eastenders, as your only point of reference, you would think that his life is only destined for doom and gloom. He has…...
This special issue of JDC gives us a great opportunity to showcase a positive vision of life with dementia – the blossoming of creativity, connection and growth that people with dementia have found through the arts. Many diarists and others have told us that at the point of diagnosis, they were basically advised to ‘get…
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…...
At the time of writing, it has been just over a week since we learned the sad news of Wendy Mitchell’s death. An award-winning writer of books, blogs, a consummate adventurer in all senses, Wendy was a beacon for an enormous number of people. So this edition of the Dementia Diaries column is dedicated to…...
Many readers will be familiar with the efforts over recent years to recast dementia as a disability. One of the main drivers behind this is an attempt to establish a conversation about applying a social model of disability to dementia. In brief, the social model of disability describes how a person is disabled, not just…...
We’ve a lot of work to do to make sure that Dementia Diarists are as diverse as the communities in which we live. But we’ve benefited hugely from the words and advice of diarists over the years who bring our attention both to the diversity and difference of the dementia experience, and our need to…
Williamson T, Maddocks C, Hewat E (2023) Dementia friendly care homes – an audit by people with lived experience. Journal of Dementia Care 31(4) 16-18. Dementia friendly audits have become more common in various settings, but less so in care homes. Toby Williamson describes a ground-breaking care home audit, while lived experience auditor Chris Maddocks…...