Christopher Manthorp

Profile: Full name: Christopher Manthorp Area of interest: The elderly: long-term care and care homes Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: christopher.manthorp@walthamforest.gov.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/christophermanthorp | Guardian Society / When I'm 84 Blog: Representation: Networks: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/chris-manthorp/1b/521/a63

Biography: About: Education: Career: Current position/role: Specialist columnist / Independent Consultant at Barchester Healthcare also writes/has written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Other:

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The Guardian: Column name: 'When I'm 84' Remit/Info: The elderly: long-term care and care homes Section: Guardian Society Role: Specialist columnist Pen-name: Email: Website: Guardian Society / When I'm 64 Commissioning editor: Day published: Wednesday Regularity: Monthly Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2009

Articles: 2008 Older people could face the best or the worst of times - There is a danger that older people will look like easy targets to the ruthless, grasping or desperate - 10th December 2008 Rebranding dementia? This way madness lies - Dementia needs to be recognised as a disease like cancer, be treated free at the point of delivery, and receive the appropriate resources - 12th November 2008 We desperately need a good old political punch-up - The bestselling novelist Terry Pratchett has given dementia a high profile in this country recently - 8th October 2008 Why the drugs never meant for dementia don't work - It was like being hit over the head with a sock full of wet sand. You lolled about in helpless apathy, feeling like death - 10th September 2008 Up the garden path to contented care - It's astonishing that a country that values its gardens as highly as the UK doesn't integrate garden activities into care - 13th August 2008 What works for us works for people with dementia, too - 9th July 2008 Painful reminder about the problems of care - politicians' policies for the elderly recently included appointing Michael Parkinson as dignity ambassador - 11th June 2008 Admiral approach helps plot a better course for carers - Carers' hours are long, their prospects are bleak, and there isn't much help on offer - 21st May 2008 This costume drama creates a 'them' and 'us' scenario - Who loves a man in a uniform these days? Well, astonishingly, some residential homes looking after older people do - 16th April 2008 At last, a scheme for older people that really works - The LinkAge scheme is a blueprint for the future care of older people - 12 March 2008 There should be no hiding from death, even as it nears - The national minimum standards, an important cornerstone of the legal framework for older people's care, cheerily insist that residential and nursing homes ask residents on admission about their death - 13th February 2008 Financial freedom at last - but safeguards are needed - are we about to enter the age of the DIY care package? - 9th January 2008 A militant tendency to make a mockery of ageism - 12th December 2007 Nothing but the best will do - and that's how it should be - 14th November 2007 It's curtains for the 'anything for a quiet life' approach - 10th October 2007 The secret to preventing dementia? Exercise restraint - 12th Septeber 2007 The caring profession needs its own health warning - 8th August 2007 Scots show Brown how to tame the dementia spectre - 11th July 2007 Personal ties do not always make effective links - 13th June 2007 Living a long life shouldn't feel like doing porridge - 9th May 2007 No need for pubs and lock-ins on good old Eigg - 11th April 2007 By George, it's hard to watch fine minds sailing away - 14th March 2007 The widening chasm where the wealthy come out best - 14th February 2007 Losing sleep over older people's care? You should be - 10th January 2007

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Links: If you work in social care, buy this book - Christopher Manthorp hails a new publication on dementia - Joe Public blog, 3rd June 2008 (see careinfo.org)