What is dementia? Part 4 – Understanding Aphasia

In my continuing series on What is dementia?, Part 4 I promised to review aphasia. It suddenly seems more relevant to me as well just now too; I was diagnosed with PPA when first diagnosed with a front temporal dementia, although had seemed to stave off the progression with speech pathology techniques. However in this last few weeks, it is…

Remembering Michael

It is technically Day 2 or Day 3 of World Alzheimer’s Month 2016 or Dementia Awareness Month 2016 #WAM2017, depending on what time zone you are in! Anyway, I decided, for want of the capacity to be more original, to dedicate some of my blogs this month to those family or close friends who I have…