Kate Irving

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“That all four grandparents had dementia mattered not a whit to us as children.”
‘Our grandparents’ dementia didn’t matter to us as children’

As a child I was fortunate to experience a wide range of older people. That all four grandparents had dementia mattered not a whit to us as children. (...)

And the password is . . . (so easy to forget)

There are three kinds of people in this world: those with numerous unique passwords which they meticulously change periodically for security reasons; (...)

Dementia patients require extra care and may have hearing and other complications. Photograph: Thinkstock
Alarm at levels of dementia awareness in Irish hospitals

One of the most striking findings from the National Audit of Dementia Care in Acute Hospitals 2014 report was that only 6 per cent of hospitals includ(...)

Raising dementia awareness

An initiative is “walking the lives” of people with dementia to assess their needs and to increase public awareness of how to support people in the co(...)

Second Opinion: Time for rethink on memory loss and how to treat it

Few actors have been so able to dominate a film screen – often to the point of overshadowing the rest of the cast – as Jack Nicholson. The conflicting(...)