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Lovely review in the Daily Telegraph for ‘Beti and David: Lost for Words’. The response to the programme has been overwhelming for all involved. Beti George let the cameras into her home to show people what it is like caring for a partner with dementia. She always intended her story to represent the thousands of carers
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There has been an incredible reaction to ‘Beti and David: Lost for Words’, an hour-long film broadcast this week on BBC One Wales (and still available on the BBC iPlayer). Filmed over the course of many months, the film is a record of two people facing a terrible illness together. Since David’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s,
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those are the words of former Methodist minister Jim McWade, in this film made over the course of
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I don’t know if you ‘fight’ cancer, ‘battle’ it, ‘learn to live’ with it, ‘cope’ with it, ‘rage against’ it, ‘deal’ with it, or a combination of them all… …But here’s what Hywel did.
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Six-year-old Brecon Vaughan is to undergo a life-changing operation this week thanks to the generosity of a young man left paralysed after a road accident. Dan Black donated more than £20,000 to Brecon’s fund and helped his family meet the costs of the operation in the United States. Dan’s gift of hope to Brecon marks
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The funny and inspiring Joe Holloway describes life with Tourette’s Syndrome. “In a way, I wouldn’t get rid of it because if I did I wouldn’t be me.” Watch Joe’s film, ‘Tourette’s and Me’, here.
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those were the words of Jim McWade in a Wales This Week film called ‘Living With Dementia’ which
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‘Living With Dementia’, a half-hour documentary following two couples who are dealing with dementia, is now available on You Tube. It is in two parts. We filmed with the two couples for almost a year. There is more on their stories here. The programme is now being used to help teach clinical psychology trainees at
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There was a very strong response to Wales This Week: ‘Living with Dementia’. The programme is now available on-line and there is a discussion forum on the Alzheimer’s Society website.
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those are the words of former Methodist minister Jim McWade. His bogey man is the Alzheimer’s disease he
Greg Lewis 