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  • Paper Trails and Mountains

    I spent a lot of time with my computer at work. Inputting and logging. Writing and refining. Reports, contacts, telephone conversations, attempted visits, visits, phone calls from concerned friends and neighbours. It is all logged. Or rather it is supposed to be. I’m definitely more lax than I...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008

  • Voice of the Older Person

    Joan Bakewell has been appointed as the ‘Voice of the Older Person’ by the government. My sensibilities bristle more than a little every time newspapers refer to her as the ‘thinking man’s crumpet‘ , that is, of course, not an epithet she chose. Am I the only person to find...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-10-2008

  • Vitamins, Dementia and Hope

    A new trial is being carried out in the New Year to look at the effects of dosages of B3 vitamin to people who have been newly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and this is reported in the Guardian. It worked on the mice so there is going to be an open trial on humans. All well and good. [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-06-2008

  • Elderspeak

    I admit, I had no idea what ‘Elderspeak’ term meant until I read this article in the Telegraph. Apparently it is defined by researchers as overly caring, controlling and infantilising communication - bears many similar traits to “baby talk”, including simplified grammar and vocabulary...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-27-2008

  • Leading Horses to Water

    I was going to make a post specifically about Mr P but I never got around to it. He is an elderly man with depression. He lives alone in one of the ‘nicer’ ends of the patch that I cover. His flat though, is one of the worse I’ve seen. Let me qualify that ‘worst’. I [.....
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-24-2008

  • Finding places

    I was on the ward yesterday, chatting to the wife of one of the patients with whom I am currently working. It’s a difficult point for her. Her husband, Mr P, has a fairly advanced dementia. He was admitted to hospital after displaying increasingly aggressive behaviour and his wife, who had cared...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-23-2008

  • Bolstering Adult Protection

    Adult protection legislation and investigations have always had fewer teeth than the equivalent in children’s services. This is something that has niggled me for all the years that I have been responsible for conducting Adult Protection (now called Safeguarding Adults) investigations. You can find...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-16-2008

  • Revisiting

    I have been in my current team for a couple of years. I worked in the same local authority before that though for about three years. The geographical boundaries of the areas that I work in don’t strictly overlap so I haven’t had it happen very often that I see people that I used to [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • A duty to die

    Sarah Wootton wrote a piece in the Guardian, a few days ago, considering Baroness Warnock’s comments in the Church of Scotland’s magazine, Life and Work, in which she stated that dementia suffers may have ‘a duty to die’. Uproar followed as it is a headline which is easy to write...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008

  • The Horse Man

    It used to be quite straightforward. I was in an assessment team so someone would make a referral to our services - usually the person themselves, or a family member or a GP or district nurse - someone who had reason to understand that care was needed for some reason. Sometimes the referrals came from...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008
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