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Tom Dening
Professor of Dementia Research
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Nottingham
Tom is the head of the Centre for Dementia in the Institute of Mental Health at Nottingham. With over 20 years experience as a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, he is currently an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Tom has extensive NHS management and leadership experience.
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June 27, 2025
As mentioned in my last blog, I have acquired a nice pair of blue hearing aids together with purple ear moulds: I wandered out of the audiologist’s feeling more than a little self-conscious and curious as to how the world...
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January 15, 2025
It scarcely needs saying that we live in a technological age. The microchip dominates our lives. There is very little that you can do or organise without using a computer or a smartphone, and often you need both, for example...
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November 15, 2024
This is a story in three parts, from clinical experience to research and finally to lived experience participation. I shall describe three types of public engagement and how one has led to another. Clinical work with patients of necessity engages...
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November 9, 2021
Book review: American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society By Daniel R. George & Peter J. Whitehouse Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 2021, pp 404, ISBN 9781421440477 I was asked to supply a review of this book for the publisher, but...
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October 19, 2021
Alzheimer’s Disease International has been producing annual reports for over a decade and they provide a most valuable resource, with up to date worldwide figures on dementia and providing a welcome global perspective. Each report is themed, for example looking...
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September 16, 2021
By which we mean the medical use of oxygen delivered at greater than atmospheric pressure. It involves the use of a special pressure chamber, which may be for an individual or sometimes it is a larger room that will accommodate...
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September 16, 2021
This is a fun subject but also an important social ritual. The dried leaves of Camellia sinensis infused with very hot water make a delicious drink, as we all know. Tea has both a long history and plenty of cultural...
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May 10, 2021
Between 1931 and 1972, the French writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) published 75 novels featuring the celebrated Detective Chief Inspector Maigret. Simenon was incredibly prolific and produced several hundred books, though it is through Maigret that he is best known. There...
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April 21, 2021
As dementia results from changes in the brain, it is unsurprising that people with dementia often have disrupted sleep patterns. Changes in sleep pattern may occur before a person has enough other symptoms to acquire a diagnosis of dementia. Previous...
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September 1, 2020
The Centre for Dementia is based at the Institute of Mental Health on the University’s Jubilee Campus, and it is one of several mental health research groups based there. The Centre focuses on interdisciplinary research, mainly in psychosocial aspects of...
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