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  • New Models of Dementia Care

    The Daily Telegraph published the first in a two-part interview with Oliver James today - a clinical psychologist who, with his mother-in-law, Penny Garner, have developed a system of working with people who have dementia which they call: SPECAL (Specialised Early Care for Alzheimer’s). As the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-28-2008

  • Assumptions

    I work in the inner city and have since I did my first practice placement in the first year of my social work course almost 10 years ago now.  For as long as I have been working as a social worker , I have only ever worked in the inner city - different parts of [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-01-2008

  • Inside Alzheimer’s

    There is an interesting article published by Geriatrics entitled Does Alzheimer’s really exist?. It consists of an interview with two authors of a book called The Myth of Alzheimer’s. I thought it raised some crucial points. Of course, biologically, Alzheimer’s exists and that isn’t...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-12-2008

  • It’s good to talk

    The Commission of Social Care Inspection are, according to the BBC, reporting the groundbreaking news that when staff in care homes talk to residents with dementia, it helps to prevent the residents from becoming withdrawn. twenty_questions  @flickr At the risk of being a little cynical, one does...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008

  • No place like home

    I saw on the BBC yesterday that a man died in an EMI/Dementia registered nursing home in Hertfordshire. It was only a passing reference on the news but I thought I’d check the CSCI report of the home in question. This is a quote taken from the CSCI unannounced inspection back in October of the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2008
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