I’ve been undertaking training in non-violent resistance (NVR) with Partnership Projects and recently attended a two day workshop on adult entitled dependency: I wrote a brief blog about NVR in

I’ve just been to the International Family Therapy Association conference in Aberdeen. I met family and systemic therapists from all round the world and Aberdeen gleamed for us in the

At the IFTA conference in Aberdeen I also took part in a panel presentation on service integration that brought together an international group of therapists. Preparing and taking part in

It’s funny how things unexpectedly connect. I took part in a webinar on veterans’ health organised by the BMA last year. I suppose I booked it because, as an old

Mental health. What do you understand that to mean? Of course by mental health we often mean mental ill-health: “I’m seeing someone about my mental health”, “he’s an in-patient in

It looks as though the theme this month is reading (and reading about reading!) So here are some of the things I’ve read: 1. The new NICE guideline on Dementia

I am enthused by an article I read recently in the Journal of Family Therapy. Golan et al’s article (JoFT, 2018, 40: 4-24) is about Non Violent Resistance (NVR) training

I’m reflecting on the question of what is “age appropriateness” after reading some papers on young onset dementia (YOD) that use the term. This is what Alastair Burns and esteemed

Recently I read some thoughts about research and that has inspired me to reflect on my interest in research and its relationship to practice.  I am, of course, an old

I’m writing this at the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry annual residential conference in Newcastle upon Tyne and reflecting on sparkling moments so far. I went to a workshop on

Older Mind Matters Ltd has been commissioned to carry out a service improvement project for Age UK Cheshire looking into older transgender people’s experiences of health and social care (the

Last week I went to a one day conference on systemic therapy with older adults at the University of Derby. It was organised by DAFT (the Derbyshire Branch of The