georgerook
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living as best I can with dementia: blogs, research, painting
georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/t...
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The devastating hyperbole of dementia
Hereās another go at dementia numbers, and the devastation that surrounds dementia. One or two of us (with dementia) have become increasingly upset about the way numbers and predictions are being tā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/the-devastating-hyperbole-of-dementia/
about 2 months ago
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My latest blog about dementia. Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
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A moral conundrum
Here is an extract from a BBC website news report today. āā¦a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study said there had been little improvement in those affecting the oesophagus, stomach aā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/a-moral-conundrum/
3 months ago
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Young Onset Dementia Conference
Discover new approaches to young onset dementia care with real stories, our film "If Not Now, When?" & workshops you wonāt want to miss!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/young-onset-dementia-conference-tickets-1488835339579
3 months ago
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My latest blog about living with dementia. What did we so to deserve this
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What did we do to deserve this?
What have we done to deserve this? Good question. What indeed? Letās start with what āthisā is? Well, Iām talking about dementia, as you would expect. But this āthisā varies enormously. Everyoneās ā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/07/18/what-did-we-do-to-deserve-this/
4 months ago
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Live in Care for people with dementia. (in the uk)
www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy...
Research opportunity for people living with dementia. Provide your experience and wisdom to researchers into Live In Care. Join our lay involvement panel. message me
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Understanding how and why live-in care packages are arranged and sustained when dementia is the primary support need: A mixed method study (LIVE-DEM).
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy/live-DEM.page
7 months ago
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My latest blog about living (not dying) with dementia. Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
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āDearā Alzheimers Society
Dear Alzheimers Society, What do you think you are doing? What are you hoping to achieve? Why are you putting out your intensely untrue and cruel advertisement? People living with dementia do not dā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/dear-alzheimers-society-2/
7 months ago
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My latest blog about living with dementia.
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Dementia Assessment and Support?
I am really pleased that a few memory services are changing their name to Dementia Assessment and Support Service. DASS seems to be the favoured (the only?) acronym. I remember that my dad used to ā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/dementia-assessment-and-support/
7 months ago
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My new post about living with dementia. pls reblue it if you like it. or not
georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/s...
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Still me inside
A reminderā¦people living with dementia are still people I will not disclose the trigger for this piece, but I am more and more and more concerned and annoyed by the continuing paradigm about dementā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/still-me-inside/
7 months ago
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My latest blog about living with dementia. Please RT if you like it, or not.
georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/t...
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To blog or not to blog?
(Slings and arrows, etc etc) Why do I write blogs? What am I trying to achieve? I started about ten years ago, I think. Soon after I had been diagnosed with mixed dementia, aged 62. I met other peoā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/
8 months ago
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Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions Via
@roylilley1.bsky.social
Really important research re social prescribing arts and culture
8 months ago
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Via
@roylilley1.bsky.social
Fiscal rules that are no more than inventions, deliver the grotesque image of rich people not taxed for fear theyāll run away and poor people taxed, made fearful because they have nowhere to run. So trueā¦
8 months ago
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Innovations in Dementia
9 months ago
Have you got a question about dementia. Why not āAsk a Dementia Diaristā? You can email your question to
[email protected]
and we will put it to our diverse range of diarists in our
#DementiaDiaries
community!
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Prioritising the voices of people living with dementia to shape the future of social prescribing
For Social Prescribing Day, the SPLENDID project team shares how the project is ensuring social prescribing remains effective and beneficial for people living with dementia and their carers. We hear f...
https://arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/news-blogs/blogs/prioritising-voices-people-living-dementia-shape-future-social-prescribing
8 months ago
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Interestingā¦X not working again today. Or Iāve been blocked?
8 months ago
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RIP Nigel Hullah. A learned and dogged campaigner for human rights and better dementia lives. We will miss you.
8 months ago
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My latest blog about living with dementia. Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
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Watch them weep
Where is the care for those living with dementia when they need it? Of course, I include family and other unpaid care givers in this, because there often comes a time when they cannot (and should nā¦
https://georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/03/10/watch-them-weep/
8 months ago
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if you live in or near Shrewsbury and have recently been diagnosed with dementia this course is for you.
www.shropshirelive.com/news/2025/03...
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Course will show how to live a good life with dementia
āDementia is not a death sentenceā - thatās the message from the organisers of course that is being run in Shrewsbury.
https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2025/03/04/course-will-show-how-to-live-a-good-life-with-dementia/
9 months ago
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Tom Shakespeare
11 months ago
Sad to hear about David Lodge. Showed you could write both academic books and great fiction...
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Iām now booked up for trains and hotel for Dementia Congress next week. Catch up with old and new friends.
12 months ago
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Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD
about 1 year ago
I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I donāt notice. I just keep feeling well. Neither do you. Public health, when itās working, is invisible.
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Helen Salisbury
about 1 year ago
My reading of this is that is up to each individual doctor so set the scope of practice for the PA/AA working with them. If you give them too much responsibility and they harm someone, that's the Dr's career down the swanee.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulat...
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Physician associates will need 'individual' scopes of practice, says GMC chair
Exclusive: The GMC will not take into account other bodies' scopes of practice for physician associates (PAs) when regulation begins.
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulation/gmc-will-only-consider-individual-pa-practice-scopes-in-ftp-proceedings
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Hello. Iāve just joined to get away from Musk et al. I am an artist with dementia and researcher activist re dementia. If you see this and have similar interests please follow me.
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