A Ricky Gervais sketch on employing disabled staff.It’s been a decade since The Office appeared on our TV screens. The story of daily grind in a Slough paper merchants was so realistic that when I stumbled across it on BBC2 one night it took me a minute to realise that it wasn’t a documentary.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Alzheimers charity song -Dripping away from You
Alzheimers charity song by Cardiff songwriter gets semi-finalist position in UK Songwriting Contest
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Ricky Gervais improving the lives of disabled people
Thank you Ricky Gervais, for improving the lives of disabled people
As the mother of two disabled daughters I thank Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant for the way they have highlighted discrimination and ignorance, writes Nicky Clark
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65 year old baby boomer has a one in eight chance of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
Can Baby Boomers Dodge the Alzheimer’s Bullet?
They say timing is everything….
by Bob Demarco, Alzheimer’s Reading Room
Back on January 4th I submitted a story on Alzheimer’s disease for publication in three community magazines in northern New Jersey. This was the first time I had done something like this.
Here is the first sentence:
A 65 year old baby boomer has a one in eight chance of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Starting today, and over the weekend, you are going to hear those words repeated over and over on television and in the news.
