Alzheimers Competition: The Winners

Thanks to Tim Parry, Senior Media and Communications Office at the The Alzheimer’s Research Trust, for judging the entries in our recent Alzhimer’s Competition and for his comments below:

The Winner

Daily activities for late stage Alzheimers Disease patients

An excellent blog – Linda identified a need for more information about caring for someone with dementia in the later stages and answered that need with a compassionate and revealing blog. It strikes a great balance between practical advice, realism and a touching personal account of how dementia fundamentally affects a person. This is a brilliant post.

Excellent:

Meditations on parent with dementia

Revealing, sometimes painfully honest, very personal meditation that covers both the effect of dementia on the person and the difficulties families have in coming to terms with the condition. Excellent.

Sally Jenkins: Alzheimers’ Blogging Competition Entry

Good grasp of the issues of how AD can affect anyone, and the injustice of research spending. A good intro.

Scribocine: Alzheimer’s Competition Entry

Another comprehensive overview, but less technical. Interesting context that the blogger has become informed about AD after researching for a book.

Adapting

Punchy, sweet, humorous but with some revealing moments. It’s more a series of vignettes about how AD affects a person, but carers may recognise and relate to elements of this.

Worthy of Mention:

Causes and Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease

Comprehensive, but quite technical, would be beneficial for people with some understanding of science or neurodegeneration. Very well researched, though it’s not particularly optimistic around research prospects.

Does Alzheimer’s  Take Guts?

Quite technical, well referenced, interesting theories, but not a huge amount to draw out for people with a specific interest in dementia. Well written, real credit for citations – too often missing in blogs.

 

Natural Help for Preventing Alzheimer’s Symptons

Very broad and comprehensive overview of Alzheimer’s, its symptoms and physiological effects. The natural remedy section of the blog is a little troubling, as it casually declares that research has shown that various natural remedies can boost cognitive ability. This research would need to be cited to avoid people being misled, we are aware of very little in the way of proven effectiveness for any natural remedy in helping with Alzheimer’s and urge caution on any claims.

Thank you everyone who took part – and to everyone who purchased from our Alzheimer’s/Dementia and Care at Home product ranges – the profit of which will be donated to the Alzheimer’s Research trust.

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