dementia

Television: Brendan O’Carroll should be praised for addressing dementia sensitively but the show is sorely lacking in laughs

Many workers provide unpaid care for older relatives, but companies who flaunt family-friendly credentials often have in mind employees with young children

One couple’s story of four years from dementia diagnosis to assisted death

Diet emphasises leafy greens, berries, grains, vegetables, nuts, beans, healthy fats and lean proteins, and limits red and processed meats, cheese, sweets, fried foods and butter or margarine

Former Tipperary hurling coach is a professor of economics specialising in gerontology whose professional life blurred with the personal when having to deal with his mother’s dementia

Ellen Kavanagh’s mother had a type of dementia characterised by hallucinations

Dementia is called the long goodbye and its impact on the person and their family is profound

Keeping Mum: Remember that while they mightn’t remember you, they’ll always remember how you make them feel

HSE Spark Innovation awards was set up to support non-consultant hospital doctors to implement innovations and has expanded to nurses, midwives and health and social care professionals

Keeping Mum: My mother’s illness often makes me cry. I weep when she has bad days, and some days I cannot keep up with the fabrications her pitted brain conjures

With a father from Goa and a mother from Dublin, I was colonised and Catholic on both sides

Being Mum: Twelve months later, I realise Mum seems to feel more comfortable in the company of animals

Doctors differ as surgeon believes amputation should proceed and geriatrician disagrees

App makes reminiscence therapy more accessible for those with dementia and is customisable for each family’s needs

Being Mum: I don’t talk to my mother about her children much. But we talk about her parents often

Being Mum: The drip-drip of memory loss becomes a river, then a deluge and now a waterfall. Within hours, they are gone

Keeping mum: Don’t argue with dementia, a geriatrician told me. They might not remember your name but they’ll remember how you make them feel

Dementia Diary: This Christmas there will be no overt endowment of gifts that leave her feeling, in the moment, as if she must reciprocate