by Mina Drever | Sep 15, 2023 | News
I am reading an interesting thriller by Rosamund Lupton, called Three Hours1 , during which a school is under siege by a couple of gunmen. Various people’s states of mind play out throughout the siege as they ruminate about their and other’s roles that may have...
by Mina Drever | Jun 11, 2023 | News
What do you understand by the word ‘dementia’ Over the last six month I have carried out five surveys with five different groups – four in the UK and one in the US – to find out what people understand by the word ‘dementia’. This investigation was spurred on by a...
by Mina Drever | Feb 24, 2023 | News
What does the word ‘dementia’ mean to three different groups of people? In the last four months I have conducted again the same survey that I ran online in November 2022 – What do you understand by the word Dementia? – with 200 respondents: I want to find out if...
by Mina Drever | Nov 18, 2022 | News
My endeavour to turn our understanding of ‘dementia’ upside down is constantly challenged by the established dogmas. I have corresponded with people at the Alzheimer’s Society (UK) and at Alzheimer’s Disease International. I am becoming more convinced that it is...
by Mina Drever | Oct 18, 2022 | News
Last week, on 5 October, I received a morale-boosting email saying, among other things: ‘I like your word unmindfulness’. This wonderful comment from Lord Rees of Ludlow, Astronomer Royal and Professor of astronomy at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK. I...
