Selection from Radio, TV and
YouTube Broadcasts
Video and Audio
Dementia in River City; why drama makes a difference in raising awareness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s71eGW-vvNQ Interview of June Andrews and actor Alison Peebles who plays the part of a lady with dementia
Breaking the Wall of Social isolation; why even going to the toilet is a challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heqy7_ypFIg
How to help people with dementia; Interview on This Morning with Eamon Holmes
http://www.itv.com/thismorning/health/living-with-dementia-help-advice
June Andrews; A Revolution for Dementia Treatment - information for the public in plain language (Four Thought; series three, 15 minutes) Advice for the general public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01gh8n4
YouTube June Andrews on the Dementia Timebomb; The RSA London with some of the “hooks” for a dementia story (5minutes 40seconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMTcEz55rYQ
Ted Talk with bad sound but good ideas for the programme! (17 minutes 40 second) about how June’s ideas on how dangerous hospital is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Yvyxo1Uf4
The Care Home Dilemma; finding a care home is fraught with emotion; here are some hints (thirty minutes; interviews with families; presented by Prof Andrews) not available to the public presently
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08c3sqm
Good Morning Scotland; a discussion at 01:05:50 about a new report concerning the movement of older people into care homes during the Covid crisis
Newspapers
Challenged for suggesting that delayed discharges meant that a pandemic was a massive risk to older people; but attacked for framing it ironically that it would as it were “conveniently remove them from the population”. A prediction that was branded “barbaric”, but turned out to be true as more than 16,000 died in the following weeks and months
Bridging the Gaps in our care system
Moving dementia patients’ care home ‘increases mortality’
Ten quick steps to fight off dementia
Britain’s top female doctors reveal Britain’s worst well-being errors