TALKING ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS IN OLDER PEOPLE
Why talk about mental illness? In recent years, stories and statistics in the media have highlighted concerns that mental ill health is affecting increasing numbers of people of all ages, …
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Katherine Southern, the Development Manager for Hourglass Scotland and Northern Ireland gave and excellent presentation on what is understood as elder abuse and how common it is. She emphasised the …
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Pioneering is about helping a new, life-giving culture emerge alongside and within inherited patterns. It is really hard to help bring new projects to birth whilst at the same time …
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The past flits and flutters back into my thoughts and alights on the branches of memory: Snowdrifts in front of Selby Abbey glowing in the warmth of Christmas lights, echoing …
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Rebecca, a retired physician, often feels anxious and overwhelmed. Now wheelchair bound due to Parkinson’s disease, she’s frustrated by immobility and memory loss caused by dementia. But, when her brother, …
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Back on October 25, 2014, a group of twenty-two delegates from across the globe gathered in a downtown Vancouver hotel on a rainy Saturday morning to look at ways of …
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I was a post-war baby. In recent years I’ve realised just how much the war and its aftermath shaped the atmosphere of the world I grew up in. I knew …
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