Dementia Podcasts
Pot with a blue flowering plant and a label with the writing 'Forget me not'

The podcast episodes listed below provide interesting information and positive suggestions about Dementia:

Communication and Dementia Michael Rosen finds out how best to communicate with people with dementia (from the Word of Mouth podcast) (28 min) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0000sg8


Helping those with dementia sleep Professor Susan McCurry and Dr Alpar Lazar discuss research on sleep-regulation for people with dementia (from the All in the Mind podcast) (10 min from 9.30 - 19.50 on the recording) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/favourites/m00060yj

Dementia Carers Two specialist dementia care nurses discuss what good care means for people with dementia (from The Conversation podcast) (27 min) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csynjn


Wendy Mitchell Wendy Mitchell (who was diagnosed with early onset dementia at just 58 years old) talks about how she copes with the disease which steals her memories and why she wanted to write her memoir Somebody I Used to Know for the woman she once was and as an affirmation of the woman dementia has seen her become (from the Woman's Hour podcast)
(1) Author of Somebody I Used to Know (24 min, from 0.55 - 13.35 and 41.42 - 53.06 on the recording) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000356z
(2) Daughter, Sarah Mitchell talks about supporting her mum, Wendy Mitchell (25 min, from 11.05 - 23.00 and 46.20 - 60.00 on the recording) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0003qx8


The Doctor's Dementia A doctor's perspective on dementia - from the inside, as she lives with dementia (31 min) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b05zky7d