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Foreword to my book 'Living well with dementia' by Prof John Hodges



This is the Foreword to my book entitled ‘Living well with dementia‘, a 18-chapter book looking at the concept of living well in dementia, and practical ways in which it might be achieved. Whilst the book is written by me (Shibley), I am honoured that the Foreword is written by Prof John Hodges.

Prof Hodges’ biography is as follows:

John Hodges trained in medicine and psychiatry in London, Southampton and Oxford before gravitating to neurology and becoming enamoured by neuropsychology. In 1990, he was appointed a University Lecturer in Cambridge and in 1997 became MRC Professor of Behaviour Neurology. A sabbatical in Sydney in 2002 with Glenda Halliday rekindled a love of sea, sun and surf which culminated in a move here in 2007. He has written over 400 papers on aspects of neuropsychology (especially memory and languages) and dementia, plus six books. He is building a multidisciplinary research group focusing on aspects of frontotemporal dementia.

 

Hodges forewordMany posts like this have originally appeared on the blog of the ‘Socialist Health Association’. For a biography of the author (Shibley), please go here

Shibley’s CV is here.

 

Shibley Rahman Curriculum Vitae CV; and a kind tweet from the National Dementia Lead



I still think my biggest achievement ever was to overcome a severe alcohol dependence to start to lead a life in recovery. As of this day, I have had about 69 months in recovery. Of course my life was thrown upside-down when I had a cardiac arrest and epileptic seizure in June 2007, but successfully resuscitated by the medics in a North London hospital. I then spent six weeks in a coma. I couldn’t walk and talk at first, but thanks to intense rehabilitation at a different specialist unit in London I was able to learn how to walk and talk again. Whilst I have never had a regular salaried job ever for the last five years, I am very thankful that I am very content in recovery. I have since then been approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to do the Legal Practice Course, which I have now completed, and I indeed have now completed my Bachelor of Law, Master of Law and Master of Business Administration. I am currently writing my fourth book, this one being on wellbeing in dementia. My contribution to international dementia research is still considered to be seminal, and is indeed cited in the current Oxford Textbook of Medicine. This has recently been recognised in a very kind ‘tweet’ from the national clinical dementia lead, Prof Alistair Burns, here.

My current (public) CV is here.

I love the City



I actually love the City! My father used to wonder why I loved the City so much, during those dark days when I was working 80 hours a week for the NHS and hated it. Sure – the guys work hard in the City, but it’s just so much my kind of work. I am fully committed to my dementia research work, but I am very lucky I can do it ‘from a safe distance’. I am internationally well respected as one of the only experts in frontal variant frontotemporal dementia, and I wouldn’t change that in the world!

But I love the way the City thrives on teamwork to get results. The law has some extremely bright, charismatic, people on it who can understand the competitive advantage of their transactions, and can understand how to make them work even considering complicated extra-jurisdictional issues. When I travel to my Business School, I have an enormous sense of pride – especially so on a hot summer’s day for some reason. Indeed, the City reminds me of my happy days at Cambridge as a student (I was there for a decade), and especially my father.

 

 

 

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