by Mina Drever | Apr 12, 2026 | News
I was walking with a new friend the other day exchanging anecdotes about our life experiences and she was very interested in what I had to say about how to talk with people living with cognitive decline. ‘That’s very interesting’ she said, ‘I don’t know how to talk...
by Mina Drever | Oct 12, 2025 | News
What do you do if the person you are living with moves imperceptibly from this ‘now’ you are living together to a ‘past now’ that you know nothing about? You are both sitting side by side, on the park bench, looking at the squirrels scuttling from tree to tree and,...
by Mina Drever | Sep 21, 2025 | News
THE PERSON STILL THERE – a quote by Emma Heming Willis It is with much warmth and dignity that Emma Heming Willis talks about adapting to the ‘new life‘ that she now shares with her husband Bruce Willis as his brain and body are progressively disabled by Fronto...
by Mina Drever | Apr 13, 2025 | News
I have been trying to put some order into the news reporting in the media of causes of ‘dementia’. Over the last few years, from about 2020 to present days, almost on a daily basis, science journalists report on new research findings on plausible causes of ‘dementia’...
by Mina Drever | Mar 16, 2025 | News
On 26 February 2025 I listened to a fascinating programme on Radio 4, called The Rally presented by Emily Knight. Apparently the rally, or the last rally, is a phrase that describes a phenomenon often observed just before – sometimes hours or days before – death...
