by Mina Drever | Jan 21, 2024 | News
Finally, a breakthrough: my application to present the Amelesia training programme at the 36th international conference held by Alzheimer’s Disease International – ADI – was accepted. I am beyond delighted. This will be a recorded presentation. I hope to do justice to...
by Mina Drever | Nov 26, 2023 | News
No change – the status quo persists As we approach the end of another year, nothing has changed in the world-view of dementia since I started this work challenging the dogma that is ‘dementia’. Nobody wants to know that there could be a different way of dealing with...
by Mina Drever | Oct 20, 2023 | News
‘The lie of time’ So says Stephen, Richard Osman’s fictional character who has been living with Alzheimer’s for quite some time, in Osman’s series of thrillers featuring the Thursday Murder Club. In the fourth book in this series – The last devil to die – Stephen is...
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...
