by Kate Pym | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog, Dementia, Healthcare, NHS, Social Care
This blog is very personal and has taken me some time to get up the courage to write it. Those who have read my previous blogs will know that myself and my brother have been supporting our mother through an initial diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), then...
by Kate Pym | Sep 3, 2019 | Commercial, Consultancy, Healthcare, NHS structures, Organisation
This is the most common comment I hear from new clients, so why is this so often the case with new ideas and new businesses? By the time I am having this conversation clients have already called in the cavalry – who are you going to call, and when is the most...
by Kate Pym | Aug 20, 2019 | Blog, Healthcare, Social Care
The Guardian posted an article in June this year looking at mental healthcare, and the lack of attention paid to prevention. With only 5% of mental health research funding spent on prevention, there is surely a long way to go before we see prevention as a working...
by Kate Pym | Jul 18, 2019 | Blog, Business, Healthcare, NHS
What it means to be a patient in a rural community. I have been asked to speak at a meeting for the Rural Service Network about my experience of working in health and care in rural environments and this has got me thinking. My experience is founded upon the...
by Kate Pym | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog, Dementia, Healthcare
Dementia, Long Nights and Wandering As dementia progresses, progressive loss of cognitive function becomes more apparent. With long, dark nights over winter difficulties in understanding time increase. Readers of my blog will know that I am supporting my mother to...
by Kate Pym | Jul 18, 2018 | Healthcare
Preparing for a diagnosis of dementia – we prepare for so many life changes, why not this? We anticipate and prepare for so many things in life, such as birth, growing-up, going to school, university, joining the workforce, hormonal changes associated with growing up...
