Issue: May/June 2023

Dementia Diaries May/June 2023

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...

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JDC Asks May/June 2023

In a surprise New Year announcement, the government said its strategy on dementia care would be wrapped up in a single policy for six major conditions.  Is the proposed Major Conditions Strategy, covering illnesses like cancer and heart disease as well as dementia, the right answer or should dementia have a strategy of its own?...

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Perspectives May/June 2023

May 15th-21st is Dementia Action Week and as I write with a fortnight to go the omens are good for a post-pandemic revival of much needed enthusiasm at the grassroots.  Diagnosis rates fell markedly during the pandemic and this year the focus of the week is quite rightly on getting them back up again.  Among...

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Looking back, and forward

By Dr Richard Hawkins, Editor-in-Chief, JDC 30 years. It is 30 years since the Journal of Dementia Care (JDC) was launched. 30 years can seem a long time – or a short time – depending on one’s perspective. If you had said to us at launch that Sue Benson and I would still be involved so far...

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Near Nature – Poetry of Dementia

Edited and introduced by John Killick. Illustrated by Sophie Standing. Lab4Living ISBN 9781843874409 Articles in JDC over the last 30 years have tracked John Killick’s exceptional work. He started listening to people with dementia, and shaping their words into poetry, as writer in residence with Westminster Health Care in the early 1990s (interviewed in JDC...

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Evidence for practice/Research news

This section aims to keep readers up to date with research in dementia care and the current best evidence to support practice. We aim to provide a channel of two-way communication between researchers and practitioners, so that research findings influence practice and practitioners’ concerns are fed into the research agenda. We welcome contributions such as:...

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Blogs I’m Watching

Vulnerability is “such a powerful tool” says Caregiver Warrior, an American blog in which Susanne shares “wisdom from the inside” of caring.  When Susanne turned grey with exhaustion one day, her mother, who has dementia, noticed and responded with a level of empathy and kindness that she hadn’t shown for some time.  “I was completely...

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