Forum: Lesbian & gay people with dementia and their carers

MIL was told she has Alzheimer's -Dementia :( and has been given Reminyl, can anyone tell me how effected this has been and if the side effect are very common, she has to take 8mg to start then build up to 24mg. Thanks

Hi Everyone, Well I have been reading through lots of different threads and have decided to join in the hope that I can offer support to someone or indeed receive support as and when required. My Civic Partner, Keith was diagnosed just over 2 years ago with Alzheimer's and although it has been...

My father has had dementia for 5 years. As his carers, we first started noticing his computer riddled by viruses, and with this, his searches for gay porn. One day his home care service provider who gives him his daily medication from a locked box, found him in bed with a young man. Social Services...

Hello are there any other gay people out there who have partners who have been diagnsed with dementia. My partner was diagnosed a few months ago at the age of 41 any one interested in replying please do would love to talk to any one else in this sitation . Ko Ko

This last 12 months has been very stressful. I have worried about Mark, concerned he might be deteriorating, worried about work which is suffering during this financial downturn, worried about staff issues and so on. Even the dog ran off two weeks ago and it took me 2 hours to track her down,...

oh dear, I've become acutely aware over the years that as we are getting older, new relatives are being born, others, usually the old fall off the perch and like a time traveller, Christmas comes around sooner and sooner! This long winded introduction is to say that my little dog Buffy is...

Since being diagnosed with Alzheimers my father has become more and more homophobic. I first became aware of this about 18 months ago when on a visit home we bumped into a distance male relative in his 30s who regards my father as a surrogate parent. Having not seen my father for a while he greeted...

To all my fellow long suffering members, :o How many years now have we had Civil Partnership as a legally recognised entity? It is a least 4 and more like 5 years yet there is still problems in some of the largest organisations (I mean the NHS) There are spaces for 6 forms of relationship and 16...

I have just heard a trail for a BBC Radio 4 programme this Monday coming, 19 July 2010, at 8 pm, in the series "It's my story". http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t1xdy This episode is called "Glad to be Grey?". "A generation of gay people have seen the decriminalisation of homosexuality,...

Does anyone know of any groups down in the west country Or who else is down here going thru this heartbreaking illness with a member of their family? :(

A funny thing happened to me the other day. I decided to meet with old friends from 30 yrs ago, when I was very religious and on a mission to save everyone for Jesus. At first glance we were delighted to see how little each of us had altered over the years, apart from a touch grey, few lines, and...

This is my first post, although ive read through the site, in general, trying to gleem useful info, i live with my Mother, who has mixed vascular dementia, and have been her full time carer for 5 years, as you all know, the isolation felt as a carer, is huge, added to this mix, is my sexuality,i am...

Mark doesn't watch much TV but when the Rugby is on it really holds his attention. Being Gay however the motivation is not strictly interest in the conventional sporting sense. Today Wales v Italy started with Mark singing the the Italian national anthem (his version) which goes something like;...

London Borough of Barnet LGBT Conference The London Borough of Barnet is hosting a half-day event on Monday 22nd March from 12.30 - 4.30pm. Entitled 'Get Aware!' the aim is to raise awareness of the issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people when using social care services....

Jim: Hello Peter. I'm just phoning to talk further about 'Denis Bryant' being placed at 'Sackville Lodge'. Do you still have a room available? Peter: Yes we still have the vacancy. I see that he is a single man, do we know if there are sexual orientation issues? Jim: Well, he hasn't confirmed it...

Hi Roger I was interested in the comments on the LGBT forum and your reason for posting "I knew that some people opposed having a separate LGBT section and so I wanted to know if it really could work." My opinion is, whilst understanding the concerns and and anxieties of some in having this...

How to reach older LGBT communities across London - An Age Concern Conference - Friday March 5th Over 100 delegates attended this conference at the Camden Centre. Chaired by Baroness Barker, there were talks about the needs of older LGBTs and reference made to the co-operation between Age Concern...

Hi all Living with a Partner who has HIV AIDs Frontal Lobe Dementia is a daily "outing" in every sense. I've certainly had to develop a high threshold for embarassment and accept that my Partner enjoys telling everyone we meet or who he can get on the telephone all about anything from our...

Extract from 'Walking on Thin Ice', 'Telling Tales about Dementia' by Rachael Dixey At the moment I'm still caught up in the 'now', and it's too painful to look back on the happier times, our civil partnership day, and earlier, our twenty-fifth anniversary, our house filled with flowers and...

I have just been to visit Ken. He is in a ward of the mental health unit of our local hospital. He is 93 and his dementia is becoming more profound. He is a gay man who has been partly in and partly out of the closet during his whole life. When he was well he was gorgeously hilarious and such good...

Pauline, the residential home manager is meeting Brian, whose partner Bill has dementia, and is now being cared for there. Brian, we think that Bill is settling down so well. He seems to be content and we like having him here. He likes having attention and its lovely that he still recognises...

Media Release Further information: 0777 301 3193; 020 8809 2407 ______________________________________________________ Telling Tales about Dementia: Experiences of Caring Edited by Lucy Whitman Foreword by Joanna Trollope Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers £14.99 ISBN: 978 1...