AIM to Get Better Blogs

  AIM to Get Better ©  at Changing my Mind About my Body Blog #3: Preparing for my Trek Across the Sahara With 6 weeks to go until my trek across the Sahara, raising money for the Alzheimer’s society, I persuaded my husband that it would be an excellent way of training if we booked a holiday in Gran Canaria, so I could practice going up and down the sand-dunes of Mas Palomas. It did, in fact, turn out to be an excellent “dry run” – having spent over £800 on essential kit for the expedition, it was really helpful to test it out and find out what worked and what didn’t. Out of the 6 days spent staying in the nearby resort of Playas de Ingles, I spent 4 days out   walking on the sand dunes.      What did I learn? 1.        In the 4 days spent on the sand dunes, I racked up 52km. Based on the number of pints of lager I drank in the evenings (and days off by the pool), I calculate my fuel consumption to be 10.8 mil...

  AIM to Get Better ©  at Understanding Dementia Blog #1 Alzheimer’s Disease: Where are we with drug treatments? On 10 th December, I attended an online webinar, hosted by Alzheimer’s Disease International . It was their inaugural “End of Year Forecast” webinar, entitled “ Translating the Alzheimer's Treatment Revolution into Real World Solutions” Professor Jeff Cummings is possibly one of the most intelligent humans on the planet yet he explained very complex issues around current and future drug treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in a way that even I understood! It probably helped that his amazing accent reminded me of “Deputy Dog” (for those of you old enough to remember the 1970’s cartoon character) and therefore very easy to listen to! I have tried to use the same language he used in my notes below. If you would prefer a more academic overview, you can read the academic paper on which his talk was based by using the link below: https://alz-journals.onlin...