From her experience as a psychotherapist Maxine Linnell asks questions about how dementia is viewed, and whether that could change. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2022. “We turn older with years but newer every day”Emily Dickinson Reference: Linnell, M. (2026) ‘Alternatives’, Journal of Dementia Care, 34(1) p. 19. Curiosity offers us a chance to…...
Williamson T, Middleton P (2025) Tribute to Nigel Hullah. Journal of Dementia Care 33(3) 13. Nigel Hullah was a well-known campaigner and activist in the dementia world who lived with the condition. Sadly, Nigel died earlier in 2025. Here are two tributes to Nigel: one from JDC’s incoming editor Toby Williamson, and one from Peter…...
Milton S (2025) Dementia Diaries. Journal of Dementia Care 33(4) 19. Diarists share their thoughts and conversations about hearing each other: sensory struggles, shared wisdom, and the power of being involved. A conversation. A sense of connection. And a reminder of how important it is that people with dementia continue not only to speak, but…...
Milton S (2025) Dementia Diaries. Journal of Dementia Care 33(3) 10. Many people with dementia have a gift — a deep-rooted capacity for presence — and if we let them, they can teach us how to use it, writes Steve Milton, presenting diary entries that focus on experiencing the richness of life in the moment…...
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…...