Research & insights
Free-to-read articles on ADHD in later life, the emerging ADHD and dementia evidence, and what genuinely person-centred care looks like for neurodivergent older adults.
Should you choose the luxury home or the smaller homely one? Care home buildings have got enormously better, and that is a real achievement. But a hotel is designed to impress somebody passing through. Why the tonal colour scheme is the opposite of the published design guidance, what the premium actually buys, and the five things that really predict a good life there.
Read the articleSomebody will write a care plan about you one day, and it will be written by a person who met you a fortnight ago. Three different documents all get called a care plan, you can only write one of them yourself, and it happens to be the one that decides what your days feel like. What goes in it, how to word it so it survives a shift change, and a free template.
Read the articleTwo bad nights in a hotel and you blame the duvet. A resident sleeps under that same duvet every night for four years, and the restlessness gets read as her dementia. Why bedding, texture and night-time routine rarely reach the admission form, what that looks like at two in the morning, and the ten questions that would change it.
Read the articleI own three pairs of the same trousers, because I put the first two away and forgot I had them. Why an ADHD brain loses whatever it cannot see, why the clutter is a memory system rather than mess, and what happens when a kind housekeeper tidies a resident's fifty-year coping strategy into a drawer.
Read the articleI take a strong coffee to bed and fall asleep. Without it I lie awake for hours. Why caffeine settles some ADHD brains instead of waking them, what the evidence actually shows, why it does not work for everyone, and what it means for a woman in a care home who has done it every night since 1965.
Read the articleThey were called lazy, scatty, highly strung and difficult. They were never called what they were. Meet the generation whose ADHD was missed entirely, and who are now arriving in dementia care with their neurodivergence still invisible.
Read the articleLarge cohort studies now suggest adults with ADHD face around three times the risk of dementia, and that treatment may change the picture. A plain-English tour of the evidence, its strengths and its limits.
Read the articleThe cardigan she refuses to wear. The dining room he will not sit in. Before we reach for behaviour charts, we should ask a different question: what does this environment feel like to a brain that processes sensation differently?
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