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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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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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April 10, 2018
It is a typical English bank holiday weekend, raining and chilly, so I have been reading. To be precise, I have been reading a review copy of a volume called Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: What Everyone Needs to Know, which...
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September 17, 2017
This novel, by Bernard MacLaverty, follows a retired couple through their weekend trip to Amsterdam. The novel is not specifically about dementia but, as Gerry the husband has some difficulty with his memory, it’s not completely out of our scope...
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August 9, 2017
I wrote about apathy for DDD in 2015* but the topic is still important and even featured in today’s Daily Mail!** This leads me to pick up the quill again: Apathy is a common symptom throughout the course of dementia. It...
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July 14, 2017
We’re just getting going on a project about hearing loss, dementia and care homes. As research projects do, it has a short title, ORCHARD, which is a contraction of Optimising Hearing Related Communication for Residents with Dementia. Both hearing loss and...
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December 30, 2016
Kate Swaffer is phenomenal. Diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia before the age of 50, she has been a leading advocate for dementia ever since, with a much-followed blog site (https://kateswaffer.com/), addresses at numerous conferences and the best-selling book whose title heads...
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December 20, 2016
The American pianist Jenny Lin gave a recital at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham this morning (18th December 2016), as part of the series of Sunday recitals that take place there each month. This one was extra special as...
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July 1, 2016
Both hearing loss and dementia become very common as people get older and it is therefore to be expected that a lot of people will have both problems eventually. As readers of this blog will probably know, there are about...
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May 9, 2016
Last week I found myself onstage at Nottingham University’s Lakeside Theatre as part of an evening exploring Comedy and Mental Health. The gentle reader may be relieved to learn that I wasn’t there to perform stand-up but instead as part...
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April 8, 2016
Words are both beautiful and terrible things. Using words like ‘mellifluous’ or ‘Christmas cake’ brings to mind a whole set of associations and images. On the other hand, words are used to spin the web that is the stigma around...
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