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LONDON, England / The Sunday Times / April 1, 2009
The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Lewis Wolpert
How We Live and Why We Die
Developmental biologist and former chairman of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, Lewis Wolpert provides a fascinating insight into the very essence of human life – and death. Drawing on his lifelong study of cells, he provides a clear explanation of the science that underpins our lives – how our bodies function, how and why we age – and also examines the science behind such much-discussed but rarely understood topics as stem-cell research and cloning.
Contented Dementia
When Terry Pratchett, Britain’s bestselling fiction writer announced he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, he described his ailment as ‘like stripping away your living self a bit at a time…a nasty disease, surrounded by shadows and small, largely unseen tragedies’.
‘Until I met my mother-in-law, Penny Garner,’ says
Oliver James, best-selling author of
Affluenza and Contented Dementia, ‘I would have assumed the same. Today, I know that the disability created by dementia does not have to be hellish, that it truly is possible to create well-being for the rest of the person’s life if you use her method for managing it.”
Wednesday - April 1, 2009
Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church
Penny Garner of SPECAL.
Courtesy: Daily Express.
In this fascinating discussion, Oliver talks to
Penny Garner, founder of the Alzheimer’s charity SPECAL, talk about a radical new method already adopted by 17,000 people since the publication
Contented Dementia.
Source:
The Sunday Times
Lewis Wolpert
How We Live and Why We Die
Developmental biologist and former chairman of the Committee on the Public Understanding of Science, Lewis Wolpert provides a fascinating insight into the very essence of human life – and death. Drawing on his lifelong study of cells, he provides a clear explanation of the science that underpins our lives – how our bodies function, how and why we age – and also examines the science behind such much-discussed but rarely understood topics as stem-cell research and cloning.
Contented Dementia
When Terry Pratchett, Britain’s bestselling fiction writer announced he was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, he described his ailment as ‘like stripping away your living self a bit at a time…a nasty disease, surrounded by shadows and small, largely unseen tragedies’.
‘Until I met my mother-in-law, Penny Garner,’ says Oliver James, best-selling author of Affluenza and Contented Dementia, ‘I would have assumed the same. Today, I know that the disability created by dementia does not have to be hellish, that it truly is possible to create well-being for the rest of the person’s life if you use her method for managing it.”
Wednesday - April 1, 2009
Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church
Penny Garner of SPECAL.
Courtesy: Daily Express.
In this fascinating discussion, Oliver talks to Penny Garner, founder of the Alzheimer’s charity SPECAL, talk about a radical new method already adopted by 17,000 people since the publication Contented Dementia.
Source: The Sunday Times
