Staying positive

Establish as early as possible some method of monitoring, to your satisfaction, how your brain is doing

I put on cheerful music, and stuff that brings back good memories.

I get upset quite easily. I calm down by watching videos on YouTube, or Face-timing my friend for a good chinwag.

We don’t suddenly lose our talents overnight and, through patience and support, we can still enjoy those talents and even discover new ones.

The diagnosis gave me freedom from my 9 – 5 job. I knew what I had, and could get on with doing what I really enjoyed i.e. campaigning.

Listen to some of the Dementia Diaries to hear other people’s experiences. You’ll discover there is a life. (Listen here).

Don’t go home after your diagnosis and just put your feet up. We can still have a good life.

Take time to sit in a bit of sunshine, either through a window if you’re indoors, or outside on a patio or garden with a cup of tea or a cup of coffee. And just take in what the world is [...]

I keep a diary every day, I keep a record, I keep a routine established. This helps enormously in enabling the days to pass, and to pass quite quickly, to pass quite positively. And then tick [...]

First of all, no matter how big your garden or small a garden one has, one can sow a few seeds in pots and get some great pleasure from them. . (Listen to Keith Oliver’s Dementia Diary here).