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This debate was part of the Northern and Yorkshire Autumn Conference of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and was held in Durham, on Friday 26th September 2014. The motion was … Continue reading “This House supports the early detection of dementia”
A number of people have asked me to try and summarise my considerations on delirium assessment. In what follows I will also try and outline an alternative approach to the … Continue reading Delirium Screening
In this short film I will explain to you why I have come to understand that case-finding and screening are actually one-and-the-same. One-and-the-same: To play this short film please click … Continue reading One-and-the-same
This short closing section on “delirium” has taken as a title a few words from Love in the time of Cholera. I have read this book several times and the … Continue reading Infusion of worldwide teas
INTRODUCTION: “Sensitive to the faltering steps of age”[1] In what follows I will attempt to explore many of the issues around the experience of confusion in those people 65 years … Continue reading The faltering, unfaltering steps
INTRODUCTION: In Part II of my review of dementia I am going to offer my personal “journey” through policy developments in the UK over the year past. To help you … Continue reading PART II: Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
A considerable number of rapid-responses followed this ‘Analysis‘ Editorial in the ‘Too Much Medicine‘ section of the BMJ. The following is my response of 14 September 2013: I congratulate the … Continue reading Political drive to screen for pre-dementia
Submitted to the British Medical Journal on the 7th July 2013 by Dr Peter J. Gordon as a rapid response to the Editorial “Too much medicine; too little care” BMJ … Continue reading CANTABmobile and its misleading promotion