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Asked by anon-187920 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine on 8 Nov 2018.
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Warren Mansell answered on 8 Nov 2018:
I am continually amazed at how we can reduce any problem that any person has – to one of lack of control – and that by trying to understand what is important for each person to control in their life, we can understand them better, and they can understand themselves better.
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Nadine Mirza answered on 8 Nov 2018:
The most interesting thing in my job is hearing about the lived experiences of those with dementia. Whether it’s getting to hear the stories from people in person, or reading about them in books and articles, it’s incredibly fascinating but also very inspirational.
One example is from a book I was reading for my research called “People with Dementia Speak Out”. In it, there’s the story of a GP who noticed some weird symptoms and guessed she had dementia before anyone else did. She tells the story of how once she was at the grocery checkout and it was time to bag her items. she was looking at the groceries on the till and the plastic bags right there and she didn’t know what to do. Her brain couldn’t put the two together and tell her that the groceries go in the bag. It took her ages before it suddenly clicked that “oh, i have to bag these” and it worried her. Another time she was unpacking groceries and put some bananas on a stove that was turned off. Later she turned the stove on from the back and forgot the bananas were on them. When the bananas started burning she could see them burning and smell the burning smell but her brain couldn’t put what her senses were telling her together and her husband had to come turn the stove off.
Once she fought to have other doctors take her seriously and was officially diagnosed, despite being scared she kept doing amazing work. She goes to conferences to talk about dementia, recognizing it and preventing it and she’s writing a full book of her own. Her story is pretty amazing and only one of the many I get to read and hear about.. -
Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:
Hi, to me is the ability of equalising learning opportunities to mostly healthy but disadvantaged children in normal schooling, as well as bringing back visual skills, including abilities to read and do basic and more complex maths to children who have problems with vision (like “lazy eye”) or those with dyslexia or even people with problems with moving.
In one big project of mine we test if virtual reality games can be a potential new treatment for kids with “lazy eye”. Currently the existing treatments – like patching the dominating eye, up to 6h per day! – are very slow (years) and patients really dislike it. And they are not this effective. So if we can help these treatments by those involving fun games, that’d be amazing to me! -
Pizza Ka Yee Chow answered on 15 Nov 2018:
Hello Jemma,
For me, it is the opportunities to interaction with animals and the time that I get in touch with nature. This is amazing as part of my job 🙂
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