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"Tis the season to be jolly....."  Yes, it's that time of year again. It's u nbelievable how quickly it turns up each December.  In 2014 we posted Top 10 Tips to Survive Christmas , as we recognise that the festive season is not everyone's favourite period. For Christmas 2015 our team have been inspired by local comedian Owen Griffkin's new comedy workshops to think how laughter has kept us going over Christmases past. Each of the team has come up with a book, or film,  or memory  that has made them laugh in Christmases gone by whilst wondering whether to embrace the holly (ouch) and mince pies with family, friends or even complete strangers, or just run and hide. "Fa la la la la, la la la la...." Angharad Many things remind me of Christmas and the laughs I’ve had, such as watching classic 1990 Christmas film ‘Home Alone’ with Macaulay Culkin. But the highlight of any recent Christmas was watching my dog, Bella (a fluffy white bichon frise) open my m...

by Anne Woods  Participation Officer, PAVO mental health team Illustration by Grietje Keller I recently attended a two day conference at Durham University entitled Making Sense of Mad Studies organised by the North East Mad Studies Forum .   Before attending, I wasn’t too sure about what to expect. Mad Studies wasn’t something that I had come across before and I felt slightly uneasy about using the word mad in this context, a theme that came up in the conference and on Twitter.  The term Mad Studies has been credited to Richard Ingram , one of the speakers, who was inspired by the creation of Deaf Studies as an academic discipline distinct from Disability Studies and wondered whether the same could happen for madness. In his presentation he said that finding method in the madness was not as important as preserving the madness in the method! In other words, Mad Studies is a way of looking at the world that uses and benefits from a different perspective to life and ne...

Last Thursday I attended a Dementia Supportive Communities network event in Brecon organised by Ageing Well in Wales and Brecon and Hay Dementia Supportive Community with support from Alzheimer's Society, Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations, Powys County Council and Powys teaching Health Board. The event was extremely well-attended, with representatives from the statutory, voluntary and private sectors. The aim of the event was "to build and develop Dementia Supportive Communities across Powys by: Sharing examples of practical ways to support people with a dementia. Identifying best practice and sources of information. Exploring ways of working together in the future." It was an absolutely packed day, and all I can do here is focus on some highlights, whilst giving links to further information where appropriate. The day was introduced by Gweneira Raw-Rees (below left), the Project Lead for Ageing Well in Wales, which has the challenging remit of "ensuring ...