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 … Read more
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...