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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.
April 15, 2020
This blog was written in response to an article in the Independent by James Moore, see https://edition.independent.co.uk/editions/uk.co.independent.issue.100420/data/9457591/index.html =============== This is a very interesting piece by a writer with first-hand experience of having been treated and discharged from an intensive care...
April 2, 2020
I received this circulated message from the Science Media Centre in London: Can anyone help with this media request from CNN please? “I’m looking for expert advice on how to cope with the death of a loved one from coronavirus...
January 31, 2020
This account of the late stages of her mother’s dementia was published by the French writer Annie Ernaux in 1997 but its first British publication was in 2019. It has been published by the independent publisher, Fitzcarraldo, who publish mainly...
October 22, 2019
A recently published paper (Arthur A., et al, British Journal of Psychiatry Oct 7:1-6. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2019.193. [Epub ahead of print]) reports findings from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (CFAS), which is a population-based study of over 15,000 people aged...
July 1, 2019
A small group of researchers from Primary Care and from Psychiatry & Applied Psychology, led by Professor Carol Coupland, has been addressing the question of whether receiving medications with anticholinergic properties is a possible risk factor for subsequently developing dementia....
May 31, 2019
Nicci Gerrard is a well-known journalist, author and campaigner. Her book about dementia is an elegy for late father, who had dementia in the last years of his life. She has researched it thoroughly, speaking to many people living with...
May 31, 2019
The somebody is Wendy Mitchell as she was before she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 58. She was a highly active, well-organised NHS manager with a responsible job, able to deal with nursing rotas for a...
May 10, 2019
No, not a posh sports car but a research workshop held in Botucatu, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The full name of Lotus was Improving care in Long-term Care Institutions in Brazil and Europe through Collaboration and Research,...
August 23, 2018
Dementia and Human Rights by Suzanne Cahill, Policy Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4473-3140-7. I was sent this book with a request from the author for a review. It’s a really timely contribution to a rapidly developing area, so it is useful...
August 23, 2018
With my colleagues, Stephanie Petty, Amanda Griffiths, Dons Coleston, we have been looking at how people with dementia express themselves when distressed and how health professionals respond when this happens. One study, which is part of Stephanie’s PhD, has involved...
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