Welcome to Talking Point - Alzheimer's Society's online forum.
Talking Point is an online support and discussion forum, for anyone affected by dementia. It's a place to ask for advice, share information, join in discussions and feel supported.
If you would like to join a discussion on the forum or start a new one, you will need to either register or log-in (you can log-in by clicking on the box at the top right of the main forum).
If you need help using Talking Point, please take a look at our Help videos or main Help section.
Talking Point is kindly funded by Santander.
This forum contains lots of information about how Talking Point works, including Help Videos and other technical tips .
Hi everyone, This is just to let you know that we're currently working on making TP easier to use with mobile phones and tablet devices. Whilst we're doing this work, it's possible that members who use their phone or tablet to view TP may be prompted to download and pay for an app. Please...
Several of you have reported that you have found it quite complicated to attach a picture (or other file) to a post on Talking Point. I’m happy to say that we’ve done some work on this function, to make it more straightforward to use. From now on, the process for attaching a file to a post on...
Have you been affected by dementia? Do you use the internet regularly? Can you spare some time to help us improve our online support community? If you answered yes to the three questions above, we’d love to hear from you. We are looking for people from the Greater London area who can...
We have recently made four short films, which explain how to register on Talking Point, and give an overview of the forum's main features. The films are: How to register on Talking Point Key features of Talking Point How to post a message on Talking Point
All busy online forums have to deal with spammers from time to time (people who send unsolicited messages with the aim of promoting their goods or services with forum users). For the vast majority of the time, our moderating team ban spammers before they get to do anything on Talking Point...
I'm trying to put my new email address on, does anyone know how I do this Thanks
Hello and good morning to all you wonderful people! A simple question. I have had a Buddy Request..... nice, what a compliment and all that ego-rush...... but what precisely does this entail? My life is chaos, struggling to keep our heads above water financially, must put Mum into fulltime care...
Hi Anyone know why this appears? It's happening more and more. Most times when I refresh the page it works but getting fed up with it now. Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.
Just wondered if anyone can help? I'm not the least bit technical so i hope i'll be forgiven for my ignorance. :o I thought i knew what a blog was :eek: but after trying to look for information on it i don't think its what i thought it was :eek: :o........ i kinda thought or hoped it was an...
Just to let you know that on Monday, we will be adding a 'My Posts' link to the top of the Talking Point home page. The link will be between the 'Today's Posts' and 'Private Messages' options, and will be visible to members when they are logged in. When you click on the link, you will be taken...
any ideas anyone please, like using smilies. just now started using a dongle and lost the smilies option
ChristineR62 has just sent me this email: I don’t know if you’ve tried to PM me on TP, but I’m having real problems – the forum won’t let me PM or post on threads. I’ve emailed TP, but heard nothing yet. You recall that I moved from (One provider to another)? At the time, I changed my email...
A few times I've posted a new thread on the end of another thread in error and haven't realised until it's too late. I don't seem to be able to find how to delete posts and have just correctd the post. how do I delete posts?
Hello Everybody , Silly question ! but the other day wanted to "check " some thing on T P & wanted to read the T & C 's but could not find them ! ! Any help please ? thank you Best Wishes to you all Love Grove x x
This question was posed by SGreener on another Thread: Firstly you need to decide which section you wish to use - browse through the Main Forum to find them For the main Support section you go here:...
Hello Everybody , Am :mad: & very :confused: this Evening ! , after "Logging In " etc correctly wanted to write & send a P M ...... so far so good ( joined T P 2010 :) & am ok with sending P M 's but not a real T P "Expert " when things start to go wrong ! :( ) It was quite a...
This is very strange. The time on my pc was an hour 'slow' so I put it to the right time. but what is confusing is that the time on the forum is still an hour slow. Sorry, not explaining this v. well. for example I posted at 6.00 pm but on the post it showed the time of posting as 5.00...
Sorry but I'm confused by all this so much to say and ask losing the plot sorry try again on good day
Hi All. I have worked out how to change my profile pictures. Just need how to put some pictures on to join the pic's thread. Thanks Love Sonia xxxxx
Funding Hi. My aunt was admitted to a residential home due to deteriotion of dementia. Since being there (5 weeks) she has got much worse. She is showing signs of psychotic behaviour and they cannot cope with her. Social services were funding her. The problem we have is no1 has power of attorney...
Each time I try to add an attachment to the end of a post it is inserted at the beginning! The cursor is in the right place but the attachment isn't. Any ideas please? Also, when I choose 'go to last post' I am taken to the beginning or middle but not the end:confused: Ideas about this?
Went to look for an early post of mine (one when Tina came to visit) but could not get back beyond June of last year. Does that mean that all earlier posts have been removed from the system? I got back to "page 20 of 20" and there didn't seem any way to access earlier ones. Would be glad to...
Hello I feel I should introduce myself to the forum as I have replied to some threads,but mostly I have read with much interest how so many of you have greater problems than myself (at the moment)!! i am an only child but I have a lovely husband and son and daughter all living at home Mum lives...
Hello, each time I visit TP I have a 'you have one PM from ...' message. I have read and responded to this PM yet it is indicating I have one new message! Any ideas?
Me again. Having trouble with PMs. First notification that the pm I have read and replied to is shown as 'new' second, trying to delete 2 PMs in usual way and at the end of procedure I get this message! Invalid Private Message specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the...
Hi All, Unfortunately the vbulletin software that we use for the forum does not allow you to search for short terms such as 'EPA'. As and alternate, you can use a search engine such as google to do this for you. The following steps force google to only search one particular site. Open...
ok can anyone tell me how to use this facility properly???? looking for post about google typed in google in the search forums bit loads of posts, but not one with the word google in subject line advance search not tried yet but from past experience it just seems to flummock the machine ...
hi, My husband has early alzhiemers and other health problems. Our house is prettty old and therefore high maintenace. Hubby and I struggle with small mjobs around the house. Anyway problem solved as we have found a wonderful service and thought it would be useful to others. The British legion...
Over the past couple of weeks I have been getting the 'no new posts' message. even when coming on TP first thing in the morning. There are loads of new posts when I eventually manage to get on and many from the previous day. Why is this, it never used to happen? The only way I can access them is to...
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