AgeWise Books

05/12/2023

By Tony Husband

16/11/2023

A New Understanding of Dementia: A Guide by Dr Michael Bender will be available from 15th January 2024 in hardback, paperback and e-book versions....

A New Understanding of Dementia: A Guide by Dr Michael Bender will be available from 15th January 2024 in hardback, paperback and e-book versions.

17/10/2023

By Dr Michael Bender Publication date: January 15, 2024 Agewise is proud to announce that this title will be available by mid-January 2024. In this blog, the author, a long-term specialist in the field, describes his recent progress on this pioneering text as to the nature of dementia and how people can develop treatment strategies to handle their difficulties, both through improving their physical wellbeing and tackling the cognitive challenges of old age....

By Dr Michael Bender Publication date: January 15, 2024 Agewise is proud to announce that this title will be available by mid-January ... Read more

17/10/2023

Faithful readers of this blog will know that the book I have been working on had the provisional title of "Taking the Fear out of “Dementia”. I have decided to change the title of the guide to getting in control of cognitive difficulties. I used to call it; but my wife, who is/was a clinical psychologist, pointed out that the title almost suggests the reader should have that fear....

Faithful readers of this blog will know that the book I have been working on had the provisional title of “Taking the ... Read more

08/08/2023

Psychological vs. Organic..Alzheimer was trying to make sense of Frau D’s very odd behaviour – accusing her husband of having an affair with a neighbour, refusing to do housework, screaming that she was afraid of being cut...

I have become increasingly fascinated with how the narrative around dementia has been constructed. It invariably starts with the scientific breakthrough of ... Read more

01/08/2023

One interesting feature of quite a number of diseases is that they are named after the doctors who “found” them. So the impression is that these diseases were waiting to be discovered and the medical professional, full as it is of brilliant minds, are the rightful ones to do the discovering.

One interesting feature of quite a number of diseases is that they are named after the doctors who “found” them. So the impression is that these diseases were waiting to be discovered and the medical professional, full as it is of brilliant minds, are the rightful ones to do the discovering.

25/07/2023

Faithful readers of this blog will know that the book I have been working on had the provisional title of Taking the Fear out of “Dementia”. I have decided to change the title of the guide to getting in control of cognitive difficulties. I used to call it; but my wife, who is/was a clinical psychologist, pointed out that the title almost suggests the reader should have that fear....

Faithful readers of this blog will know that the book I have been working on had the provisional title of Taking the ... Read more

12/06/2023

I don’t know about you, but, for a wrinkly like me, COVID was a strange and quite peaceful time – I was working on a scientific way of defining the literary canon and was plodding along quite nicely. The end of The Legacy Voyage: In Search of the Great British Novel – to be published by AgeWise – was some way ahead but visible....

I don’t know about you, but, for a wrinkly like me, COVID was a strange and quite peaceful time – I was ... Read more

24/05/2023

So, to my own offerings. For over thirty years now, as a consultant clinical psychologist working with older adults, I have been trying to make sense of “dementia”, through referrals and treatment of hundreds of clients; and also then trying to make sense of what I had seen and felt, in writing about it in dozens of articles and half a dozen books, and innumerable presentations....

So, to my own offerings. For over thirty years now, as a consultant clinical psychologist working with older adults, I have been ... Read more

16/05/2023

You’re Worried You May Have Alzheimer's and What You Can Do about It, a Self-Help Manual and Handbook by Dr. Mike Bender. This is a comprehensive handbook by one of the leaders in the field. Dr Mike Bender was a consultant clinical psychologist, specialising in helping people with dementia; and well-known for his many articles and his books on the subject, such as…...

You’re Worried You May Have Alzheimer’s and What You Can Do about It, a Self-Help Manual and Handbook by Dr. Mike Bender. ... Read more

16/05/2023

Hallo, here is my first posting about AgeWise Press, which I launched about five years ago as 'Bee’s Wing', but that kept getting lost among honey producers. Hence the new title for 2023. AgeWise’s purpose is what it says on the tin: Regional books of national importance. It aims to further and encourage writing from Devon and more widely, the South-West; and given my training and career as a clinical psychologist, it has a bias towards books with a psychological content or awareness....

Hallo, here is my first posting about AgeWise Press, which I launched about five years ago as ‘Bee’s Wing’, but that kept ... Read more

29/12/2022

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/28/dementia-patients-in-england-facing-national-crisis-in-care-safety

Exclusive: Nearly one in 10 care homes that offer dementia support reported on by inspectors in 2022 were given worst rating