Dementia

Delirium

Nakata, Aphasia and Sylvia Plath

Imagine being able to converse with a cat. That’s what Nakata can do.

Delirium

What matters.

Anyone who has spent much time in hospital will recognise the phenomenon of the invisible patient.

Delirium

Muffled sounds, drum beat and dementia

Norwegian Wood Yesterday Michelle Penny Lane All resonating, taking me back and creating an atmosphere.

Delirium

Function versus behaviour

Nothing works with Florence, distraction, diversion, joking, cajoling, all the old tropes fail. You have to accept that Florence isn’t eating and leave her alone.

Delirium

Pressure ulcers (bedsores) & PCHC

I was recently involved in the care of a patient who developed a pressure ulcer. Behind this seemingly innocuous sentence lurks a whole raft of issues, concerns and aspects of […]

Dementia

Together, we live in dementia.

A basic human right – the right to family life has been bolloxed.

Delirium

How long until I die? (Locked down and out in 2020)

Often old men and women will seek human contact, particularly when feeling isolated – and when I reciprocate with my gloved hand (that they don’t appear to notice as being anomalously purple or blue) we are able to make contact, to connect.

Dementia

this is me, again, and what you and i want or do not want when the ambulance is on the way.

I have become victim to the system bias of considering diagnoses and discharge destinations to be of more importance than the person I am discharging.

Delirium

Covid, my brain and the computer interface

Thanks Jane for allowing me to continue today’s blog; that was about the ways in which Covid has forced a change in my behaviour (likely, yours too) which in turn […]

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almondemotion

My thoughts on creativity, imagination, health and social care and their relationship with human emotion

Dementia

Nakata, Aphasia and Sylvia Plath

What matters.

Muffled sounds, drum beat and dementia

Function versus behaviour

Pressure ulcers (bedsores) & PCHC

Together, we live in dementia.

How long until I die? (Locked down and out in 2020)

this is me, again, and what you and i want or do not want when the ambulance is on the way.

Covid, my brain and the computer interface