{"id":40706,"date":"2021-08-10T12:13:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=40706"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:13:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T11:13:30","slug":"talkin-about-neurodegeneration-presented-by-karen-meenan-09-08-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=40706","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Talkin\u2019 About Neurodegeneration\u2019 \u2013 Presented by Karen Meenan 09 \u2013 08 \u2013 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Ftalkin-about-neurodegeneration-presented-by-karen-meenan-09-08-2021%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Where do you begin to communicate the message of Brain Health?\u00a0 And how can you encourage the rest of the world to listen to Africa&#8217;s appeal for vaccine equity?\u00a0 Wendy Weidner, research and policy project lead for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease International, is joined by Rachel Thompson, Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy Body Dementia, and Ken Greaney, director of Lewy Body Ireland for a lively discussion about equity in dementia care.\u00a0 Dr David McNair, Executive Director for Global Policy in ONE shares shocking statistics\u00a0about the vaccine rollout in Africa where only 1.3% of the 1.3 billion population are vaccinated against Covid-19.\u00a0 Frontline workers in Uganda and other countries don&#8217;t have PPE or vaccines and cannot get access to this life saving medicine despite having the funding to buy it.\u00a0 \u00a0As always the guests choose the music from Bach, Labbi Siffri, Dan Fogelberg, Don McLean and The Cardigans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do you begin to communicate the message of Brain Health?\u00a0 And how can you encourage the rest of the world to listen to Africa&#8217;s appeal for vaccine equity?\u00a0 Wendy Weidner, research and policy project lead for Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease International, is joined by Rachel Thompson, Consultant Admiral Nurse for Lewy Body Dementia, and Ken Greaney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":22690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18464,20092,20093,8451,20090,20089,20091,20087,2148,20088,19674,20086],"class_list":["post-40706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-brain-health","tag-dr-david-mcnair","tag-global-policy-in-one","tag-karen-meenan","tag-ken-greaney","tag-lewy-body-dementia","tag-lewy-body-ireland","tag-lzheimers-disease-international","tag-near-fm","tag-rachel-thompson","tag-talkin-about-neurodegeneration","tag-wendy-weidner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40711,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40706\/revisions\/40711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}