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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · 9d

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Here’s another go at dementia numbers, and the devastation that surrounds dementia. One or two of us (with dementia) have become increasingly upset about the way numbers and predictions are being t…

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Aug 14

My latest
blog about dementia.
Pls RT if you like it. Or not.

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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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Aug 10

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Young Onset Dementia Conference

Discover new approaches to young onset dementia care with real stories, our film "If Not Now, When?" & workshops you won’t want to miss!

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Jul 18

My latest blog about living with dementia.
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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · May 6

Live in Care for people with dementia. (in the uk)

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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).

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Apr 27

My latest blog about living (not dying) with dementia.

Pls RT if you like it. Or not.

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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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Apr 17

My latest blog about living with dementia.

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Dementia Assessment and Support?

I am really pleased that a few memory services are changing their name to Dementia Assessment and Support Service. DASS seems to be the favoured (the only?) acronym. I remember that my dad used to …

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Apr 10

My new post about living with dementia.
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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Apr 4

My latest blog about living with dementia.
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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Apr 3

Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions
Via @roylilley1.bsky.social
Really important research re social prescribing arts and culture

georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Mar 27

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…

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Innovations in Dementia @innov-dementia.bsky.social · Feb 10

Have you got a question about dementia. Why not ‘Ask a Dementia Diarist’?
You can email your question to [email protected] and we will put it to our diverse range of diarists in our #DementiaDiaries community!

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Prioritising the voices of people living with dementia to shape the future of social prescribing

For Social Prescribing Day, the SPLENDID project team shares how the project is ensuring social prescribing remains effective and beneficial for people living with dementia and their carers. We hear f...

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Mar 19

Interesting…X not working again today. Or I’ve been blocked?

georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Mar 19

RIP Nigel Hullah. A learned and dogged campaigner for human rights and better dementia lives. We will miss you.

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Mar 10

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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Mar 5

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...

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.

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Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social · Jan 3

Sad to hear about David Lodge. Showed you could write both academic books and great fiction...

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Nov 23

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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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Nov 19

snow here in N Shropshire. 2cms? Wont stick.

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Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD @kmpanthagani.bsky.social · Nov 15

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.

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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · Nov 16

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.
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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.

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georgerook @georgerook.bsky.social · Nov 16

Neither carving nor calving. Arthritis got the better of me. But painting a lot. And editing a book on YOD with Jan Oyebode.
Loads of research ppi

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