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Care Show London review


disease, the neurologist told me that the symptoms include disinhibition, obscenity, and tendency towards laziness and bad temperedness. I said: ‘sorry, does he have a disease, or have you just met him?’ Because my dad was always exactly like that. And what I noticed when he got Pick’s disease was that he didn’t disappear, which is how I think people think of dementia – they think that it means that the person who you love has gone – it was sort of the opposite of that; he became a sort of exaggeration of himself. “My point is: don’t assume that when


someone has dementia, they’re gone. Because it seemed to me that my dad was ridiculously there, but just in this altered version of himself. And so for me, as a comedian and as a writer, I wanted to talk about that, because it seemed to me that I was pushing back against this silence and this reverence.” Over the course of the session, David read


a moving passage from his book and spoke candidly about his father’s gradual decline and the profound challenges that came with it, as well as the many blackly comic situations that arose along the way. He also reflected on the critical role carers played in the last few months of his dad’s life, as well


An untapped market? Care Show London 2025 was a busy and buzzing event, and it was great to say hello to so many people at the show and at The Care Home Environment’s stand, where we distributed copies of our April issue and our all-new New Build Projects supplement, which compiles a number of articles based on my visits to new care homes across the UK.


While Care Show London was


as touching upon his own anxieties about developing dementia, while recognising that key lifestyle differences between him and his father offered some hope: “My dad was a working class Welsh bloke. His diet when he was young – and when he was old – was pretty terrible. He drank for most of his life, he smoked for most of his life … I haven’t done those things, so who knows?”


undoubtedly a success, I wonder if perhaps digital tech – specifically, AI – loomed a little too large. Of course, with a sector so notoriously slow on the uptake when it comes to digital adoption, nobody could blame tech companies from wanting to access a relatively untapped – and lucrative – market, but for my money, with so many stands offering AI-based, all-in-one ‘solutions’, it would have been nice to have seen a little more variety. That said, the addition of a dedicated Catering, Hydration & Nutrition Theatre – host to a number of live cooking demos – was definitely welcome, even if celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager chose an on-stage chat rather than get her pots and pans out. Still, there’s always next year!


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