dementia – A New Vision for Mental Health

Medication fog can mimic or worsen dementia, doctors say

Author: Editorial 11th March 2020 0 Comments

“Unfortunately, it’s not unusual,” said Chen, a geriatrician at the University of California, San Francisco. About 91% of people over 65 take at least one prescription medicine and 41% use five or more — what doctors call polypharmacy. This report appears…
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a wellbeing society

Associated Press, Chattanooga Times Free Press, dementia, Dr. Pei Chen, Marilynn Marchione

Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime

Author: Editorial 17th February 2020 0 Comments

This book has been written (2009) by psychiatrist, Dr. Grace Jackson. The publishers say: “… the global prevalence of senile dementia is expected to increase more than four-fold within the next forty years. … In the face of this imminent crisis,…
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collaborative practice

dementia, Dr. Grace Jackson, iatrogenic disease, Psychiatric Drugs

Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 16th September 2019 0 Comments

This free, online course is offered by FutureLearn (owned by the Open University), who say: “Find out how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with deep emotional strain. The great 18th century writer Dr Samuel Johnson, who suffered from…
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a wellbeing society

bereavement, bipolar, dementia, depression, FutureLearn, heartbreak, literature, novels, online course, poetry, reading, stress, trauma

a coherent system

Author: admin 31st October 2016 0 Comments

Our vision is of a simple system of service-based assessment and referral that doesn’t rely on an increasingly complex system of diagnostic labelling. It is a mental and emotional health care system that both removes a great deal of the…
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a coherent system

common mental health problems, dementia, diagnosis, GPs, labels, psychosocial disabilities, service levels, severe and complex mental health problems, street triage