Blog
28 January 2020
The divorce between theory and practice is a recurring theme in many areas of knowledge. In particular, the question which is the subject of this...
15 January 2020
I recently took part in a podcast about consenting research participants. I enjoyed being part of this podcast because it was an...
11 December 2019
Some things are learned little by little, throughout life. Without realising it. What attracts us to people, what we dislike, what we choose or...
22 November 2019
These days, winds of change are blowing in this house, accompanied for many of us by a tenuous feeling of nostalgia and orphanhood. Matia knows a lot...
14 November 2019
The European Society for Patient Adherence, Compliance and Persistence (ESPACOMP) defines the term "medication adherence" as the process in which the...
05 November 2019
Caring is very integrated and standardised in our society. Most people have cared, are caring or will one day care. This idea is so widespread that...
11 October 2019
THANK YOU, to all of you, PEOPLE. Yes, PERSONS, in capital letters. No nurses, no doctors, no psychologists, no assistants. Humanity in its pure...
08 October 2019
I'm Xabier Madina, I'm not going to introduce myself by listing the things I can't do, nor the medical diagnoses that have been assigned to me...
21 September 2019
I recently read in "The New Yorker" an interesting article entitled "The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care", which I recommend reading. Its author...
14 August 2019
Sleep disorders and dementia
People spend a third of their lives sleeping, with sleep having a physical and cognitive repair function. As the years...