In the same week, less publicised but more important for patients with dementia, their families, and health-care providers, Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI) released its 2015 World Alzheimer ...Report, which this year focuses on the global effect of dementia, and provides projected estimates of the prevalence, incidence, and societal and economic consequences of dementia up to 2050. Since 2010, when the ADI last focused its yearly report on the global effect of dementia, the quality of data on the societal and economic costs of dementia has improved.
One of Terry Pratchett's most popular Discworld Novels, adapted for the stage by long-time friend and collaborator Stephen Briggs. Includes:Unseen Academicals,Feet of ClayandThe Rince Cycle.
Terry Pratchett, the much-loved author, died aged 66 in March 2015, seven years after revealing he had posterior cortical atrophy, a rare form of dementia. This text is a reprint the powerful account ...of the condition that he wrote to fight the stigma of the illness. It was first published by the Alzheimer's Society in 2008. For Pratchett, things came to a head in the late summer of 2007. His typing had been getting progressively worse and his spelling had become erratic. He grew to recognise what he came to call Clapham Junction days, when demands of the office just grew too much to deal with. He was initially diagnosed not with Alzheimer's but with an ischaemic change, a simple loss of brain cells due to normal ageing. That satisfied him, until the next Clapham Junction day.
Six years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Terry Pratchett is still writing. He tells why sci-fi is bigot-proof, why he keeps saying no to Hollywood - and whether his daughter is his Discworld ...successor. (Quotes from original text)
In the Eighteenth Katharine Briggs Memorial Lecture, fantasy writer Terry Pratchett reveals how his imaginary world of Discworld was largely influenced by his reading of folklore and mythology. ...'Given what human beings have done, practised and believed in the last ten thousand years, it's quite hard to make up anything new and it's a shame to see the old stuff lost'.
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