Poetry and Dementia: A Practical Guide John Killick Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2017 ISBN: 9781785921766 £16.99 I wonder what your relationship to poetry is? I have met some people that simply do not get this way of expression; others who simply haven’t got the time or the inclination to attend very closely to the shape and form and sound words. Others live by its art form as a profound expression of truth through the limitations of human language. They…
Visiting the Memory Café and other Dementia Care Activities Evidence-based Interventions for Care Homes Edited by Caroline Baker and Jason Corrigan-Charlesworth. Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2017, ISBN: 9781785922527 £16.99 They can be few families who are not affected by an individual who is engaging with some degree of significant memory loss. For some the prospect of old age is rather haunted by the possibility of having to embrace dementia. Understandably we fear the loss of our memory and its instrumental part…
First published in the Salisbury Journal 2 February 2017 At Sarum College we are interested in engaging with and reflecting on what makes for human flourishing. You will have a sense of what it is that helps you to live what inspires your enthusiasm for life. Being able to remember is one of those dimensions of living that contributes to our flourishing though many of us take this for granted. As we grow older, memories play a larger part in…
Positive Psychology Approaches to Dementia Edited by Chris Clarke and Emma Wolverson. Paperback 2016, 288pp ISBN: 978-1-84905-610-6 £24.99 This is a surprising book in so far as it, at first glance, appears to be a technical collection of essays written by experts in the field of dementia and psychology. It makes a distinctive contribution to the literature and is carefully edited and well organised. However it is also attractive in so far as it gives expression to a deep commitment…
I am gathering together a small collection of books all published by Jessica Kingsley who is certainly one of the most innovative and ground-breaking publishers working in this field. Their list covering a range of books on dementia is well worth examining. ( www.jkp.com ) These first two books handle at first hand the experience of living with dementia People with Dementia Speak out Lucy Whitman 2015 JKP 304 pages £14.99 and Whatever the hell happened to my brain?…
Dementia ‘losing out’ to cancer in funding stakes Each dementia patient costs the economy £27,647 each year Dementia now costs the UK economy twice as much as cancer but gets a fraction of the funding to find causes and cures, a report seen by the BBC shows. For every one pound spent on dementia research, 12 times that sum goes on investigating cancer, figures from the Alzheimer’s Research Trust indicate. Bridging this gap is urgent, it says, particularly given the…