georgerook
@georgerook.bsky.social
living as best I can with dementia: blogs, research, painting
My latest
blog about dementia.
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blog about dementia.
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A moral conundrum
Here is an extract from a BBC website news report today. ‘…a London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine study said there had been little improvement in those affecting the oesophagus, stomach a…
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August 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
My latest
blog about dementia.
Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/a...
blog about dementia.
Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
georgerook51.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/a...
My latest blog about living with dementia.
What did we so to deserve this
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What did we so to deserve this
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What did we do to deserve this?
What have we done to deserve this? Good question. What indeed? Let’s start with what “this” is? Well, I’m talking about dementia, as you would expect. But this “this” varies enormously. Everyone’s …
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July 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My latest blog about living with dementia.
What did we so to deserve this
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What did we so to deserve this
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Live in Care for people with dementia. (in the uk)
www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy...
Research opportunity for people living with dementia. Provide your experience and wisdom to researchers into Live In Care.
Join our lay involvement panel.
message me
www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy...
Research opportunity for people living with dementia. Provide your experience and wisdom to researchers into Live In Care.
Join our lay involvement panel.
message me
Understanding how and why live-in care packages are arranged and sustained when dementia is the primary support need: A mixed method study (LIVE-DEM).
www.southampton.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Live in Care for people with dementia. (in the uk)
www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy...
Research opportunity for people living with dementia. Provide your experience and wisdom to researchers into Live In Care.
Join our lay involvement panel.
message me
www.southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy...
Research opportunity for people living with dementia. Provide your experience and wisdom to researchers into Live In Care.
Join our lay involvement panel.
message me
My latest blog about living (not dying) with dementia.
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‘Dear’ Alzheimers Society
Dear Alzheimers Society, What do you think you are doing? What are you hoping to achieve? Why are you putting out your intensely untrue and cruel advertisement? People living with dementia do not d…
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April 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My latest blog about living (not dying) with dementia.
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Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
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My new post about living with dementia.
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pls reblue it if you like it. or not
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Still me inside
A reminder…people living with dementia are still people I will not disclose the trigger for this piece, but I am more and more and more concerned and annoyed by the continuing paradigm about dement…
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April 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
My new post about living with dementia.
pls reblue it if you like it. or not
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pls reblue it if you like it. or not
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My latest blog about living with dementia.
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Please RT if you like it, or not.
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To blog or not to blog?
(Slings and arrows, etc etc) Why do I write blogs? What am I trying to achieve? I started about ten years ago, I think. Soon after I had been diagnosed with mixed dementia, aged 62. I met other peo…
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April 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My latest blog about living with dementia.
Please RT if you like it, or not.
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Please RT if you like it, or not.
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Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Really important research re social prescribing arts and culture
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Really important research re social prescribing arts and culture
April 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Really important research re social prescribing arts and culture
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Really important research re social prescribing arts and culture
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Fiscal rules that are no more than inventions, deliver the grotesque image of rich people not taxed for fear they’ll run away and poor people taxed, made fearful because they have nowhere to run.
So true…
Fiscal rules that are no more than inventions, deliver the grotesque image of rich people not taxed for fear they’ll run away and poor people taxed, made fearful because they have nowhere to run.
So true…
March 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Fiscal rules that are no more than inventions, deliver the grotesque image of rich people not taxed for fear they’ll run away and poor people taxed, made fearful because they have nowhere to run.
So true…
Fiscal rules that are no more than inventions, deliver the grotesque image of rich people not taxed for fear they’ll run away and poor people taxed, made fearful because they have nowhere to run.
So true…
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Have you got a question about dementia. Why not ‘Ask a Dementia Diarist’?
You can email your question to DementiaDiaries@outlook.com and we will put it to our diverse range of diarists in our #DementiaDiaries community!
You can email your question to DementiaDiaries@outlook.com and we will put it to our diverse range of diarists in our #DementiaDiaries community!
February 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Have you got a question about dementia. Why not ‘Ask a Dementia Diarist’?
You can email your question to DementiaDiaries@outlook.com and we will put it to our diverse range of diarists in our #DementiaDiaries community!
You can email your question to DementiaDiaries@outlook.com and we will put it to our diverse range of diarists in our #DementiaDiaries community!
Interesting…X not working again today. Or I’ve been blocked?
March 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Interesting…X not working again today. Or I’ve been blocked?
RIP Nigel Hullah. A learned and dogged campaigner for human rights and better dementia lives. We will miss you.
March 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
RIP Nigel Hullah. A learned and dogged campaigner for human rights and better dementia lives. We will miss you.
My latest blog about living with dementia. Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
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Watch them weep
Where is the care for those living with dementia when they need it? Of course, I include family and other unpaid care givers in this, because there often comes a time when they cannot (and should n…
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March 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My latest blog about living with dementia. Pls RT if you like it. Or not.
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if you live in or near Shrewsbury and have recently been diagnosed with dementia this course is for you.
www.shropshirelive.com/news/2025/03...
www.shropshirelive.com/news/2025/03...
Course will show how to live a good life with dementia
‘Dementia is not a death sentence’ - that’s the message from the organisers of course that is being run in Shrewsbury.
www.shropshirelive.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
if you live in or near Shrewsbury and have recently been diagnosed with dementia this course is for you.
www.shropshirelive.com/news/2025/03...
www.shropshirelive.com/news/2025/03...
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Sad to hear about David Lodge. Showed you could write both academic books and great fiction...
January 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sad to hear about David Lodge. Showed you could write both academic books and great fiction...
I’m now booked up for trains and hotel for Dementia Congress next week. Catch up with old and new friends.
November 23, 2024 at 8:31 AM
I’m now booked up for trains and hotel for Dementia Congress next week. Catch up with old and new friends.
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I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
November 15, 2024 at 11:20 AM
I would love to tell you about the times vaccines prevented me from getting sick, but every time it happens, I don’t notice. I just keep feeling well.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
Neither do you.
Public health, when it’s working, is invisible.
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My reading of this is that is up to each individual doctor so set the scope of practice for the PA/AA working with them. If you give them too much responsibility and they harm someone, that's the Dr's career down the swanee.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulat...
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulat...
Physician associates will need 'individual' scopes of practice, says GMC chair
Exclusive: The GMC will not take into account other bodies' scopes of practice for physician associates (PAs) when regulation begins.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
My reading of this is that is up to each individual doctor so set the scope of practice for the PA/AA working with them. If you give them too much responsibility and they harm someone, that's the Dr's career down the swanee.
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulat...
www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulat...
Hello. I’ve just joined to get away from Musk et al. I am an artist with dementia and researcher activist re dementia. If you see this and have similar interests please follow me.
November 15, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Hello. I’ve just joined to get away from Musk et al. I am an artist with dementia and researcher activist re dementia. If you see this and have similar interests please follow me.