‘Wow! Over the past weeks I’ve taken time to sit and read your book, haven’t finished it yet. Sid it’s amazing, the way you have written the book and the examples given is so clear and easy to understand. I look forward to finishing it.’ Helen O’Connor, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychogeriatrics. I have to admit that Helen and I worked together for many years. She is an esteemed colleague and dear friend but her comment was unsolicited and Helen…..
Dr Frukacz, editor of the RANZCP NSW newsletter wrote in the June-July edition: EXCERPT: So, this is a book that is both informative, and enjoyable and easy to read. It is a book that can be recommended to family and carers of patients with organic brain disease to help them understand better and thereby cope better with what must at first sight seem strange and bizarre behaviour. Yet its capacity to make a topic that is usually dry and…..
At a dementia forum in Tamworth (Australia) John Quinn spoke of living a remarkably active life with early onset dementia. He recounted the difficulties he faced in the period before the diagnosis was made. John has deficits in some domains of function but retains assets in other functions. Sid, as opening speaker for the forum, emphasised that dementia is not a single ‘thing’; that there are many forms of impaired brain function which come under the umbrella term ‘dementia’; that…..
DOES EXERCISE PREVENT ALZHEIMER’S? A 28 year follow-up study suggests that physical activity did NOT have a protective effect for cognitive decline or risk of dementia. These results suggest that the often observed decrease in physical activity before onset of dementia could be part of the cascade of changes occurring in the very early (preclinical) phase of Alzheimer’s disease. This study published in June 2017 has, of course, been challenged. ‘Your Brain in Sickness and in Health’ discusses this issue…..
A Dementia Forum titled DEMENTIA IS DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE will this year be opened by Sid Williams. who provided a consultant Old Age Psychiatry service to Tamworth from 1996 to April this year. The one day conference in Tamworth New South Wales Australia is not about Sid’s book but the organizers have kindly given permission for his book to be on sale on the day. Agenda NE Dementia Forum FINAL 20170725.
Prof Parker, in launching Your Brain in Sickness and in Health made the following remarks: “The book is exceptional, somewhat so in content, but more in structure and style. As you’ve heard, he aims to describe and explore some of the behaviours and experiences associated with abnormal brain function. He describes broad territories such as dementia and narrow and intriguing topics such as ‘common sense’ and ‘abulia’. In terms of formal content the book is scholarly and informative. In terms…..
“It is first rate. Scholarly and informative, and I learned a lot. It captures you well – learned, empathic and with some dry wit”
“On behalf of all of us that you have helped over the years with your kindness, compassion and empathy and all those who will read your book and use it to help them face the challenges dementia and brain disorders create I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude, especially for your persistence and foresight in creating a book relevant to both professionals and carers.” Mrs Ruth King, Carer.
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