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Why is it that I am Here? by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health "The approach of a man’s life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousn ... Read on »

A Life Beyond. by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Here's a touching, short film about dementia by Nic Askew. One of his soul biographies. Read on »

You're Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don't by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health From Independent Lens "Lee Gorewitz lives in a care facility for Alzheimer's patients, but she is not simply waiting to die. She is full of curiosity and frust ... Read on »

Iceberg – a new metaphor by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Reisa Sperling MD is a neurologist, specialising in dementia and imaging research. Her research is focused on the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. ... Read on »

Muse and De Betties – Follow Me by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Muse – always with their finger on the pulse, helped to raise awareness of dementia at their December concert in Belgium. Introducing their charity gig, they welcom ... Read on »

Hilda Knott – 85, but still game... by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Born before the world's first television station aired but today, Hilda Knott, who will celebrate her 86th birthday next month, loves to play a range of PS3 games ... Read on »

White Ladies No.17: but this time a man – keeping on his toes! by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health This is ballet dancer John Lowe who learnt to dance on the eve of his 90th birthday. He'll be 94 this year – and he's still leaping for joy every day – Go John! ... Read on »

Run for your (brain) life by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Research shows that exercise bolsters both the structure and function of the brain. Just a few months of moderate exercise can create new neurons, lift mood and ... Read on »

What makes a good dementia-friendly community? by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health We'll be posing the question "What makes a good dementia-friendly community?" to people with dementia and their loved ones, as part of the scoping work to devel ... Read on »

Who's worse off: people with Alzheimer’s or their caregivers? by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Here’s an interesting question posed by Alzheimer's advocate, writer, psychologist and caregiver supporter, Jennifer Gerhold, writing on her excellent blog, Demen ... Read on »

The humble glass of water, an unsung hero of older people’s health by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Whatever our age, it is vital that we have enough to drink. The NHS recommends that we should drink 2–3 pints or 1–1.5 litres of water, every day. Dehydration ... Read on »

Dementia care: Communication, communication, communication by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health As anyone who cares for a person with dementia will know only too well, when the person loses their ability to communicate, frustration is an obvious outcome. Yet ... Read on »

Thank you so much and Happy New Year! by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health With the end of the year upon us and lots to look forward to in 2013, here's a list of wonderful people whose passions are similar to my own, who I admire – and fo ... Read on »

23 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health I'd like to have Delia Smith at my Christmas lunch. We could talk about football and food and maybe she'd bring a few treats from her fabulous Christmas recipe ... Read on »

22 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health Who would I like to invite for Christmas lunch? Tough! But I want to have stimulating conversation over the turkey and pud, not just someone to pull the cracker ... Read on »

20 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health My choice of Christmas lunch guest would have to be Dr Who – David Tennant, (40) then my children could talk to him about Cressida Cowell's How to Train Your Dr ... Read on »

19 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health I'd like Mahatma Ghandi, Terry Pratchett and Fiona Phillips at my Christmas lunch... Ghandi because of his brilliant statement; Pratchett because I'm right with hi ... Read on »

18 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health I would like to invite Lucy Worsley (40 today - Many Happy Returns Lucy!)) to my Christmas lunch - she's a really fizzy lady and has nothing to do with the world tha ... Read on »

17 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health I'd like the French author, philosopher and psychologist Marie de Hennezel (66) who writes fabulous 'must-read' books on ageing with Paul Newman (87*), serenaded by t ... Read on »

16 December by Sarah Reed Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Aging & Senior Health I’d love my dad to be at my Christmas lunch. This will be my first Christmas without him after he passed away in April 2012, aged 85, after 19 years with dementia. ... Read on »

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