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• Waiting for Alzheimer's to strike

  Posted: 16 May 2012 | 10:30 am

  A moving film from New York Times about an extended family of 5,000 people who live in Medellín, Colombia, and remote mountain villages outside that city, with more members who live with Alzheimer’s than any other in the world; and a new and unprecedented clinical trial, the first to focus on people who are cognitively normal but at very high risk for Alzheimer’s disease.

   

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• Speaking as one of 'them', life is a heuristic process

  Posted: 16 May 2012 | 9:00 am

  This is Elfriede Bruning, resident of Berlin and 101 year-old author of over 30 books. What a great face, eh? Under the straightforward heading WHY ARE WE SCARED OF GROWING OLD? last week's Stylist magazine investigated our fear of old... Read more >>

• Stand by me...

  Posted: 14 May 2012 | 12:43 pm

  This is three years old, but still a great intergenerational film ... from the award-winning documentary "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", a cover of the Ben E. King classic. Performed by musicians of different ages around the world, each... Read more >>

• My Dear Girl... My Darling Daughter

  Posted: 9 May 2012 | 1:44 pm

  When I was a child, my dear (very old) grandmother used to say things like "...just pop upstairs for my glasses would you dear, you still have bones in your legs..." The reminder for this was a touching letter -... Read more >>

• A new A to Z guide for dementia

  Posted: 4 May 2012 | 9:02 am

  The word “Alzheimer’s” strikes fear in the hearts and minds of most baby boomers. With both “A” and “Z” present in the name, in a way, the journey from “A” to “Z” is already implied. Sadly, with dementia, the map... Read more >>

• White Ladies No. 11 - Eva Zeizel

  Posted: 1 May 2012 | 8:10 am

  Eva Zeizel died on 30 December 2011, aged 105 years old. The Hungarian-born industrial designer was known for her semi-abstract work with ceramics from the period after she emigrated to the United States. The first designer in the US to... Read more >>

• Q: Does Wealth Reduce Compassion?

  Posted: 28 April 2012 | 4:56 pm

  A: Yes. Scientific American asks, "Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal – the poor person or the rich one? It’s tempting to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After... Read more >>

• White Ladies (not) No. 10 - "Weegee"

  Posted: 27 April 2012 | 4:20 pm

  Weegee has long been a favourite photographer. Born Usher Fellig in 1899, in an eastern province of Austria, he arrived with his family through Ellis Island (where his name was Americanised to Arthur) to the Lower East Side of Manhattan... Read more >>

• Melanie Wilson: Autobiographer

  Posted: 26 April 2012 | 3:42 pm

  "Finding a way to capture the world of dementia has been a labour of love for writer, sound artist and performer Melanie Wilson. With Sube Banerjee, psychiatrist and professor of mental and health and ageing at King’s College London, as... Read more >>

• What happened when the West Midlands NHS reduced antipsychotic prescribing for people with dementia?

  Posted: 26 April 2012 | 9:00 am

  ANSWER: better staff moral, quality of life and reduced costs. Now that's an outcome! The following blog post comes from Dr Karim Saad and Dr Bartley Sheehan at www.nhslocal.nhs.uk "A care home intervention to reduce the ‘chemical cosh’, boosts staff... Read more >>

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