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Lecanemab

BarBaraPrz @BarBaraPrz (51838) • St. Catharines, Ontario 29 Oct

A newly approved medication that slows the progression of Alzheimer’s? Woo hoo! "Lecanemab, also marketed as leqembi in Canada, is administered intravenously over an hour every two weeks for the first 18 months... The treatment...

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Movie Review Robot And Frank

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Jun 19

2012 – Spoiler alerts Rather a sweet, sad, comedy drama that is far from perfect but it is quite beautifully done. Frank Langella plays an ageing one time jewel thief cat-burglar, succumbing to the ravages of Alzheimer’s. His...

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Diary Friday 30th June 2017

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 1 Jul 17

My first full day back in Preston, which feels a little disorientated after nearly three weeks away. I got paid my welfare money today which coincided with two public events to attend. The first was a moving presentations by a...

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Movie Review Still Alice

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Mar 17

2014 – Spoiler alerts. A beautiful, often harrowingly realistic look at a young woman’s struggle with her Familial Alzheimer’s Disease. Alice (Julianne Moore) is a linguistics professor with three children, who learn that they...

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Creative Writing Exercise – Forgotten Suitcases

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Nov 16

The second of the two exercises set for us yesterday by Leanne Dempsey involved a series of photographs taken by Matt Van Der Velde in abandoned nursing homes and US asylums, including the ruins of buildings unused and often...

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Preston Pub Sign Studies The Sir Tom Finney

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 15 Oct 16

Tucked away in the estate areas of Penwortham, Preston is a pub with a name paying tribute to the city’s best known football hero, Sir Tom Finney. There is also a Finney’s Café bar at Preston North End’s football ground, a Tom...

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Movie Review - The Savages

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 15 Oct 16

Spoiler alerts - 2007 The last of six movies in this year’s exceptional One In Four movie festival addressing sensitive mental health issues. This one concerns a dysfunctional brother and sister (Savages being their family...

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Documentary Movie Review – Alive Inside

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 13 Oct 16

No spoiler alerts required for this highly moving non-fiction documentary subtitled A Story Of Music And Memory, on a project to bring simple hope and joy to people in nursing homes and Alzheimer’s sufferers in particular through...

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Old Age, normal and inevitable

Mavic123456 @Mavic123456 (21891) • Thailand 7 Oct 16

I just don't know what crossed my mind about being old. Maybe I am old, or getting older.. ahhhm yeah I am really old what can I say, it is something, inevitable.. all of us as they say are going to get old, I say, come on give...

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The reason why Gene Wilder didn't want the public to know....

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 31 Aug 16

I am sure this information has already been put out there long enough for the public to know but I only just found out and felt like discussing it. So sorry if I am just repeating something you already heard. According to what I...

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