Outdoor activities can have enormous benefits for physical and mental wellbeing among people living with dementia. What outdoor activities do you recommend for this summer, now Covid restrictions have been lifted?” Many people saw Covid as a negative experience and I did too to begin with; my routine of travelling around the country coming to an abrupt...
Dementia and Psychotherapy Reconsidered Richard Cheston, Open University Press, ISBN 9780335250981, £25.99 Richard Cheston’s book aims to provide an in depth and nuanced understanding of how to support people living with dementia to remain in their communities over the long term, through the provision of psychotherapy. The author has been a pioneer over 30 years...
By Mark Ivory, Editor, Journal of Dementia Care As we went to press we were still expecting the interim report on the Major Conditions Strategy, originally slated for early summer, that health secretary Steve Barclay heralded to most people’s surprise at the start of the year. It will contain the government’s new strategy for dementia...
Clock Drawing Test (CDT) in screening This is the first study to examine the additional value of the CDT to the MMSE (Mini Mental State Examination) in a large older memory clinic population with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and subjective cognitive impairment (SCI). It concluded that the CDT contributes significantly to the...
Wendy Mitchell writes about a visit to London to promote her new book, One Last Thing: How to live with the end in mind. As the title suggests, the topic is death and in the book Wendy explores dying with dementia, how we prepare for it and talk about it. The London visit is a...
Resource 1 Gardening for health charity Thrive has produced a garden action pack called Get Gardening Without a Garden. The pack, intended for people with dementia among others, gives tips on experiencing the wellbeing benefits of gardening without having a garden. There are sections on containers, window boxes, house plants and much more. Research by...