News and Updates

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

IT IS TIME TO STOP USING THE WORD DEMENTIA The American Psychiatry Association (APA) published, in February 2022, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. – DSM -5-TR ™ Whilst the authors of the section Neurocognitive Disorders –...

Life is almost fully back to normal in Redbond Lodge residential care home. There are some wonderful new residents with big smiles and hopeful dreams that life is not going to be ‘so bad’. The poignant tone of resignation is palpable when they consider that ‘it could...

It has been a while since my last post. The adage that much has changed and yet everything is the same applies so acutely to this Amelesia work. No more Covid restrictions, and yet visitors are few and far between to care homes. Residential homes keep going in and out...

The conversations first published on this website have been put together into a book which I have self-published on Amazon KDP, as a paperback, and as an e-book. They will soon be available on other platforms. Many people involved in this process have wanted these...