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Navigating job change with hearing loss
This time last year, I was looking ahead to the closure of my workplace in March 2024 and the loss of my job. For 17 years I’d worked at Cochrane UK, the birthplace of the global organisation that is known for its gold standard summaries of health evidence. I loved what I did and the…
Hearing and healthcare: more deaf awareness needed and simple solutions
Hospitals are awful places, aren’t they? Members of my household have had several emergency hospital admissions in recent years. Each time we have been so very thankful for immediate and free access to expertise and treatment. But my husband Tim has just spent two nights in hospital (the same one that brought us together as…
Activities for people with dementia: what can evidence and experience teach us?
While most of the blogs here are about hearing loss and my cochlear implant journey, I’m also reposting a few of the many blogs I wrote for Evidently Cochrane, as that site will soon go offline with the closure of Cochrane UK. Whenever I wrote about evidence relevant to people with dementia, I had my…
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From Ear to Eternity: a cochlear implant diary 