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Jenni Mack

Jenni Mack

Let’s change perceptions….

Recently it was seen worthy of front page news that Dame Barbara Windsor’s dementia had gotten “so bad” that her husband Scott Mitchell…

Sep 16, 2020

Sep 16, 2020

Jenni Mack

Person Centred or Person Led?

After a wonderful day working with Scottish Care’s Donald Macaskill I’ve been left with this phrase stuck in my head and it has really got…

Feb 18, 2019

Person Centred or Person Led?

Feb 18, 2019

Jenni Mack

Anxiety Epidemic

According to the Journal of Psychopharmacology findings (read here)- In 2013 there were 8.2 million cases of anxiety in the UK.

May 30, 2018

Anxiety Epidemic

May 30, 2018

Jenni Mack

Dementia Terminology — What is appropriate?

The world as we know it today has gone politically correct mad. We cannot even have a “blackboard” in schools anymore despite it being, in…

May 30, 2018

Dementia Terminology — What is appropriate?

May 30, 2018

Jenni Mack

Palliative Care

Palliative/End-of-life care refers to health care, not only of a person in the final hours or days of their lives, but more broadly care of…

Apr 15, 2018

Palliative Care

Apr 15, 2018

Jenni Mack

Pigeonholing

PIGEONHOLE verb gerund or present participle: pigeonholing

Mar 29, 2018

Pigeonholing

Mar 29, 2018

Jenni Mack

Age Appropriate??

“Age appropriate” is something that I hear often in dementia care and it’s something that I completely disagree with. The question…

Mar 16, 2018

Age Appropriate??

Mar 16, 2018

Jenni Mack

What makes a good care home?

According to the Office of National Statistics, the population in the UK is getting older with 18% aged 65 and over, and 2.4% aged 85 and…

Mar 3, 2018

What makes a good care home?

Mar 3, 2018

Jenni Mack

Why Activities for the elderly in Care Homes should be a priority.

Activities are an area which is sadly seen to be less of a priority than it should be in care homes at present. Often staff feel they…

Mar 3, 2018

Why Activities for the elderly in Care Homes should be a priority.

Mar 3, 2018

Jenni Mack

Relationships in Care

Relationship — noun –

Mar 3, 2018

Relationships in Care

Mar 3, 2018

Jenni Mack

Jenni Mack

Activities Coordinator and Dementia activist. Mummy, Wife, Pretending not to be in my 30s and trying to find the pot of gold at the end of the Rainbow.

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