Ep10 - Living, Laughing & Cycling with Dementia
The Dementia Adventure
Peter Berry was suicidal when diagnosed with early onset dementia. Yet today, this jovial, raconteur now calls his terminal illness his "Dementia Monster" because it makes it something other, not inside him, not HIM. Dementia forces Peter to live in the present moment. Together with his great friend Deb, he cycles all over Suffolk - not outrunning his Dementia Monster, but occasionally out-cycling him. Leaning on their bikes they see only what is in front of them, content and happy just to be.
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Ep9 - The need for a Compassionate Society whilst Caring for my Wife
The Dementia Adventure
Meet James Price whose wife has young onset Alzheimer's disease. James reflects on the complexities of caring for your lover and explains why Admiral Nurses are vital. We explore what a compassionate society would look like, be it sympathetic restaurant staff, friends surprising you with their help, care-workers being paid a salary befitting their role, or having compassion for yourself when necessity dictates your loved one move into residential care.
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Ep8 - How to Keep our Brains Healthy
The Dementia Adventure
Meet Katy Stubbs PhD from Alzheimer’s Research UK, who reveals three key ways we can look after our beautiful brains. And the good news is they’re easy and fun. Katy shares some of the research into brain health, and the actions needed at a societal level to embed these messages and support positive change.
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Ep7 - Living Well with Dementia and Still Being ME
The Dementia Adventure
Meet Sue Strachan who lives with dementia and is learning to live well. She tells her unique story. "You know the old saying - if you’ve met one person with dementia, you’ve met ONE person with dementia; we're all different.” Sue busts myths, refuses to be sidelined and reveals how she's found purpose and positivity in the face of dementia. Sue is featured in Channel 4's, The Restaurant that makes Mistakes.
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Ep6-Dementia Researcher on Reasons for Hope
The Dementia Adventure
Meet epidemiologist, research fellow of University College London and dementia advocate, Dr Sarah-Naomi James. Dr Sarah is studying people over time to see whether patterns emerge in those who develop dementia symptoms. She reveals a 15 year window of opportunity between physical changes taking place in the brain and dementia symptoms presenting. If we can improve our ability to spot physical triggers of dementia we may have a window of hope in which to slow the onset symptoms.
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Ep5-Daughter of Dementia-Is it Okay to Feel Angry and Resentful?
The Dementia Adventure
Actor, Kate Russell-Smith, has a mother with Alzheimer's Dementia and a father with Parkinson's Dementia. She also has two children and a career to take care of. In this frank interview, Kate bravely admits the things we don't like to say out loud. She feels resentful of her time being hijacked; she feels guilty for feeling resentful and she is bored of the monotony of it all. Driving away from a care home with tears in her eyes, her mum's words ring in her ears, "I hate you right now."
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Ep 4-Care for Carers
The Dementia Adventure
When someone you love receives a diagnosis of Dementia, you may walk into that Doctor's surgery as a husband or wife but you walk out as a carer and who is there to care for you? Meet Mandie Baker, who has been providing information and support for family carers for the last 2 decades.
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Ep 3-Utilising Mindfulness and Learning to Accept Dementia
The Dementia Adventure
We meet Bryn Jones: mindfulness-based psychotherapist, drama & movement therapist, theatre director, former Buddhist monk and son of a mum with Alzheimer’s.
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Ep2 - Can we Cure Dementia?
The Dementia Adventure
Meet Dr Amy Monaghan who is working within the Drug & Research Institute of UCL & Alzheimer's Research UK. Can Amy delay the onset and prevent Dementias?
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SERIES TRAILER
The Dementia Adventure
What's The Dementia Adventure all about?
info_outlineWe meet Dr Amy Monoghan, pharmacology & screening scientist and molecular biologist, who reveals what's going on within the Drug and Discovery Institute funded by Alzheimer's Research UK.
The Institute's overriding goal is to develop new drugs to delay onset and prevent dementias.
Dementia is not an inevitable part of growing older; i is a physical disease and as such it's possible that Amy and her team can discover a cure.