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Hiya all, just to show the kind of HUGE support we are getting for Dementia Awareness Day Sept 15th 2012 from the other big organisations !!! Its just wonderful to know we are all in this together and do what we can to help each other, thank you so much...

Hello all, just to let you know the plans for next week’s first ever meeting of the Torbay Dementia Action Alliance are well under way and we may well have a attending not only the Mayor of Torquay (hopefully) but at least 16 of Torbays councillors...

The heading is not simply bombastic. Walter Lorenz - foremost pedagogy academic, and author of Social Work in a Changing Europe - asked: Is social pedagogy essentially the embodiment of dominant societal interests which regard all educational projects...

by Simeon Brody The tragic case of the Lancashire social care worker who died after being stabbed yesterday has again raised the question of how safe social care workers are, particularly when it comes to home visits. Read More...

we got a memo sent round our office last week, would all staff clearly wear the ID badges at all times, well i was not happy, and i moaned and moaned and was then told to just get on with it. my issue you see is that the service users we work with would...

I haven’t been able to shake off the Panorama programme about the abusive care environment at Winterbourne View. We spent quite a lot of time talking about it at work yesterday as well, at meetings and in the office. It has pushed my mind back to the...

The Future`s Ours To Keep Eyes that sparkle, yet lost their shine, Memories gone that once were mine, Slowly ebbing into Abyss, Seeping out into the midst, Wanting, WILLING time to cease, Praying for a mindful peace, Dementia envelopes your soul, Dragging...

Catching Snowflakes “The Poem” Catching snowflakes in my hands, Catching them before they land, Melting in between my fingers, Feels so cold as it lingers, Problem is, it’s not really happening, The falling snow, the cold so lingering...

The judgement in the case of Stephen Neary was published yesterday. I held off commenting about the case when it first hit the press because sometimes I feel there is a lack of detail and an overwhelming presence of misunderstanding in relation to reporting...

Tired Eyes And New Born Eyes In the past I have never held any of my new born`s until they were all about three months old!! (For fear of dropping them) When baby Joseph Alfie was born a few days ago I couldn’t wait, not only hold him, but most...

After Ed Balls called for social work to require a masters level qualification to improve its status , Sunday Times columnist Daisy Goodwin has joined the debate with a call to draw more men into the profession. Read More...

A Bolton Lad`s Life All the names of people or places in this story have not been changed, so if you want to sue, I don’t give a bugger!! By the time this goes to press I shall be sat on a beach somewhere in Torquay, eating a Cream Tea! Early On...

DEMENTIA AWARENESS DAY 15 th Sept 2012 It is with such pleasure that this year`s chosen Charity to benefit from this year’s Dementia Awareness Day or D.A.D day as we love to call it will be the LEWY BODY`S SOCIETY UK http://www.facebook.com/l.php...

I didn’t plan to watch ‘Saints and Scroungers’ on BBC1 last night. Really, I didn’t but it was nestled between The One Show and Eastenders (I never claimed to have particularly high brow TV viewing habits!) so it just happened … Continue reading...

Both The Times and The Guardian reported that Southern Cross Healthcare Group have been launched into some kind of financial crisis following the failure to repay a loan of some £46 million. Times are getting harder and a lot of firms are failing - but...

Continued from yesterday.... **If you got here from a search, I have important info about this company!!!** It all started with a pair of boots. I really, really wanted them. I was on one of the best. sites. ever. ( You know the one ) and in a bit of...

I wonder how bad a care home has to be to have definitive action taken against it. I came across this story in the Liverpool Echo referring to St Michael’s Manor Nursing Home in Woolton, near Liverpool. The home received … Continue reading →...

Not all Wine and Roses Hiya all, just to show its not all wine and roses, today i have just found out that my book "Silent Voices" which i know is on Amazon UK, USA, Europe, has been turned down By Jessica Kingsley Publishers UK . I would be...

Evidence based practice is where it's at.........................surprisingly though many people in the mental health teams i work in are so busy just doing the job managing caseloads and navigating the various computer systems and inputting data...

Five Years Later Hiya everybody just thought it was time for a little catch up. Its five years ago now since I had the devastating news I had a diagnosis of Dementia and the only advice I had on that day from the consultant was “Use it or lose it”...