News and Updates

This December 2021 finds us in almost as fearful anxiety as December 2020. The new Covid-19 variant Omicron is spreading like wildfire. Every country in the world is already panicking. The British government has again restricted visiting by family and friends to care...

An interesting piece of research news appeared in the media on or around 7th November, just over a week ago. Neuroscientists at University College London are recruiting London black cab drivers onto a study in yet another quest to learn more about what causes...

Parts of the brain damaged by different diseases In my last post I attempted to highlight the difficulty I have with headlines that tell us what causes ‘dementia’ and what we should do to avoid it. I find this approach lazy and mis-informing. I know that brain damage...

It is becoming clearer and clearer to me that the ambition set out on these web pages – to stop using the word dementia because of its connotation with madness and its erroneous classification as a disease – must gain momentum and capitalise on the positive feedback...

This week I resumed my visits to Redbond Lodge Residential Care Home in Great Dunmow after a 9-month-long Covid-induced absence. It is comforting to see so many familiar faces. So many smiles welcome me as I walk round the dining room offering cups of tea and eggs on...

The core message that underpins Amelesia is that the essence of a person’s character and personality does not cease to exist the moment one receives a diagnosis of ‘dementia’. Our ‘being’, our ‘self’, our ‘person’, our ‘personhood’ … call it whatever you want – is...

During this last year – the Covid-19 year which started in early 2020 – isolation has been imposed on all sections of society, all over the world, with varying degrees. Some of us were too useful to self-isolate: doctors and nurses, educators, fire services, the...

An updated Manifesto is now ready to read and download on the Amelesia website. It has been read and critiqued by a few critical friends who know that I welcome honest, critical feedback. This is what one of them said: ‘It is a very powerful work and, whilst being a...

Following on from my last post, today I want to take a very brief look at dementia: what is it? What exactly is dementia? It is with immense frustration that I ask myself why people don’t ask themselves this fundamental question. Day after day someone in the press and...

Covid-19 continues to dominate our lives. I had to suspend my visits to Redbond Lodge care home for the second time as it went into complete lockdown again, long before the government issued new restrictions. The protection of its residents is of the utmost priority...