Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by Charles Miller, published by Icon Books, Feb 2025. About The Book: An Economist Best Book of 2025 So Far “For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, a “gripping story of medical groupthink and warped incentives” (The Economist) that follows how Alzheimer’s disease treatment has been set back by…
Image source: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/national-centre-for-healthy-ageing/living-labs/Improving-access-to-rehabilitation-for-people-with-dementia The right to rehabilitation of everyone, including people with dementia is one of my pet topics, and anyone who’s followed me here for a while will know I’ve been writing about and campaigning for dementia to be supported as a condition causing disabilities, and for proactive rehabilitation immediately after diagnosis for all…
Recently, I started to become interested in the work of a psychologist, Dr Roger McFillin, and after listening to multiple Radically Genuine podcasts and interviews and reading his posts on social media, decided to join the Conscious Clinician Collective. This initiative is open to everyone, not only clinicians. That is, anyone with an interest in…
My usual effervescence and optimism disappeared momentarily when I learned last week that the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved the use of donanemab in Australia. Evidence is weak for benefits, but high for serious side effects, some even causing death. It is only for people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. And…
I probably written about one of my other blogs, but my recipe website In The Kitchen has slowly been developing. I’ve now started to transfer the daily recipe I post on this site on the In The Kitchen page where Kick off 2012 Project 366 has been happening since January 1st, onto the new site. This will make it…
These bloody things, they spring themselves upon us, completely out of the blue, and there seems to be no way of predicting when. Try as we might, my husband and I feel helpless to know what to do, not only to try to predict them, but to try to stop them or prevent them. The burden…
It would be good to wonder, what the hell is going on, and know it wasn’t dementia. My life skills are diminishing, my ability to see reason and to be logical is more impaired, and the inside of my head is spinning more. The lights are on today, but it seems there is nobody home,…
Well, I am definitely not overly fat, but underneath my clothes I do show serious signs of middle age, normal for my age, the lack of toning exercises, and the amount I eat. My GP has been suggesting for years I do some cardiac exercise, and simply rolls his eyes when I say, but I…
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