Media Versus Dementia

Stimulating the brains of People Living with Dementia by Media which trigger Reminiscences can slow, even halt the advance of cognitive degeneration.

"What [media] do to the brain is fantastic because the patient will recognise those stimuli, the blood supply will increase, the drainage will most likely become more efficient ........it may halt the progression of dementia and it may also treat it.” Professor Roxana Carare, November 2022.

Media v Dementia will create a platform of interactive Personalised Reminiscence Media [iPRM] designed to stimulate People Living with Dementia (PLwD) and to delay or halt the cognitive decline.

On Friday October 20th, MedvDem will hold a high-level seminar of scientists, care providers, broadcasters, government agencies and dementia charities, dedicated to exploring the proposition that




stimulate the brain and delay, even halt dementia.

STOP PRESS

interactive Personalised Reminiscence Media

Interactive

Reminiscence

Media

Personalised

Five routes to exploring Media versus Dementia:

The wise men and (mainly) women in the Potting Shed (Science) breed new varieties and study the results

Walled Garden, (Content) holds a variety of media selected and personalised to entertain and stimulate 

Jukebox 2025, (Technology) provides dementia-friendly access to the contents of the Walled Garden.

Actions

The first is to visit the activities and the teams designed to deliver the most effective media to the people with dementia and measure the results.

Constitution

Constitution

You might like to learn about the charity which will design and deliver the media

Participate

Pilots

Donate

Carers

Or you might prefer to become involved as a family or carer, or by taking part in the field tests and pilot, or by donating or helping raise funds.

What They Say......

What the ‘media’ have said about ‘media versus dementia’.


Radio 4 Today

Newspapers

Guestbook

Rory Cellan-Jones

Case Study

Pictography

Tribute

Tricia

When he saw the effects of deprivation of media had on his wife’s Alzheimer’s, Michael Blakstad decided to explore the potential for ‘media versus dementia. 

Coming Soon.....

Friday 20th October 2023

Media Versus Dementia Seminar 2023 at The Arc, Winchester. More details to follow

Donations

So near and yet so far. We depend on donations towards the costs involved in maintaining the campaign Media versus Dementia between April and July.



Alzheimer’s Hope, Hype and the Here and Now



Rory Cellan-Jones brings sanity to reporting of ‘breakthroughs' in pharmaceutical treatments of Alzheimer’s

Guest post - Michael Blakstad on Media v Dementia


My recent post Alzheimer's - hope, hype and the here and now contrasted the excitement around new Alzheimer’s drugs which may not be available for years with a technique that is available to help people with dementia right now by giving them access to personalised media that sparks memories. Michael Blakstad, the 83 year old founder of Media versus Dementia and the inspirational former editor of the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World, wanted to put a comment at the bottom of the piece. But I thought his views deserved greater prominence so I said I would publish them as a guest post:

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