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Welcome to the Dementia Day to Day blogs. A blog is a series of articles where people write about how they feel about something, a bit like an online diary.
We're always looking for new authors: email us if you want to get involved.
You can see the winners of our 2025 Blog Competition here.
Games, Giggles and Green Faces
Charlotte Atkinson - July 1, 2025
In what still felt like the height of COVID times, I found myself in a very overheated lounge, mask and visor on, shouting at the top of my lungs “Two and two, twenty two, two little ducks, quack quack!!” This...
Food and Drink
Rosey Meiring - July 1, 2025
Mary (to Enid): I’d love a cup of tea, would you? Enid: Oh yes! Mary (to passing staff member): Could we have a cup of tea please, and what cake do you have on today? Staff member (looking at her...
The Ikarian lifestyle: Can it prevent dementia?
Leila Tudor-Price - July 1, 2025
Dementia is a global issue and affects people of many different cultures, with 55 million people worldwide estimated to be living with the disease in 2020. This number is expected to soar to a frightening 153 million by 2050. However,...
Spring and Dementia
Betty Machin - July 1, 2025
Spring is a wonderful time of the year. We are hopefully saying goodbye to cold winters and welcoming springtime. Looking forward normally to warmer times which most of us prefer to cold winter days. Trees change to green, and flowers...
Food and Drink
Betty Machin - July 1, 2025
Everyone needs food and drink, and most of us have personal preferences. For people of a certain age mealtimes were an important part of the day. Families sat around the table eating and drinking together. Families shared their day together...
Dementia and spring
Fred Osborne - July 1, 2025
What springs to mind is the need for carers to be prepared for all kind of eventualities when looking after a loved one with dementia whether it is Springtime or any other season for that matter. As a retired sanitary...
Mama and the Mango
Bettina Wallace - July 1, 2025
Mama was born in Jamaica. She came to the UK in 1961. When Mama was 80 years old, she was knocked down by a car which was driven by a newly qualified driver. You can imagine how I reacted when...
Dementia and Spring
Bridget Smith - July 1, 2025
Oh, what a joy – the sun’s appeared! Gone is the grey and the murk. It’s been grim over winter, so dank and so dark, so slippy and slimy; not a perk. Our thoughts brighten up and smiles appear at...
Musical Fun and Games
David Smith - July 1, 2025
I was appointed to a new school to be their deputy head, having many years previously been a member of the Regimental Band of the Royal Sussex Regiment. The headmaster was looking for a teacher who could bring music into...
Chinese Food and Dementia Risk: A Shanghai Perspective on Brain Health
Beili Shao - July 1, 2025
As someone from Shanghai, a city where the culinary arts are a cherished tradition, the intersection of Chinese cuisine and health is deeply personal to me. I have been living in UK for last 15 years so the fragrant aroma...
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