Season 6 is looking at how Dementia is captured in the media. There are many forms of media, but this episode is focusing specifically on how dementia is portrayed in books. I've been chatting to Prof Cindy Weinstein from CalTech in the US and former carer Jeff Seneviratne from Manchester (UK) about Cindy's book "Finding the Right Words" and their experiences of how dementia is discussed in the media, both in the US and the UK.
Both Cindy (@cindyaweinstein) and Jeff (@jeffseneviratne) are also active on twitter.
After the podcast recording ended, Jeff shared with us a beautiful poem his sister wrote for his late wife Teresa:
For Teresa
Because I can't be at her funeral, I make an altar
in my living room: an oak table with indigo shawl,
a lit candle on a birch holder with a heart in its bark.
I gather camellias - the petals fall, the way she fell
quietly away after all the sorrow of the incremental
losing of her, all the living with her present absence.
I send my love out to their broken heartache, a circle
of held hands around the space she has left.
Seni Seneviratne
S7E2 Cultural Diversity in Dementia Care
S7E1 Dementia care in the land down under
S6E3 Featuring dementia on TV and in reports by the Alzheimer’s Society
S6E2 Dementia cartoons with Tony Husband
S5E5 Big data on care homes
S5E4 The value of family carers
S5E3 Green Care Farms
S5E2 Innovative Long-Term Care
S5E1 Human rights in care homes
Dementia Action Week 2022
S4E5 Ethnicity and dementia
S4E4 Young-onset dementia
S4E3 Rare dementias
S4E2 Care after a diagnosis
S4E1 What happens in the brain in dementia?
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Season 3 Ep 1 - Ageing well with Music and creativity
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