The "Telling It Like It Is" Outreach Programme will expand upon the issues raised in the documentary. It will provide care experts, therapists and museum professionals with another forum for debate and aid the presentation of information about Bill Utermohlen, and Alzheimer's Disease to a wider audience.

Telling It Like It Is :
The DVD Lecture Series

The 'Telling It Like It Is' Lecture Series DVD will work in tandem with the website to help geriatric care experts, therapists or teachers and museum professionals to tailor their information for a wider audience. The DVD will provide additional interviews, photographic material and extra scenes from the feature documentary. The DVD will also include additional introductory material to selected scenes.

Pat Utermohlen

Telling It Like It Is :
Training & Education Programme

A 'Telling it Like It Is' lecture programme and carefully designed series of seminars, workshops and 10 week programme for health, social care professionals, and people supporting a person with dementia, will be available in 2011.

Outreach Online and Live Lecture Series

Telling It Like It Is :
Live Lecture Series

The lecture series will also be available in a multi-part online broadcast series and will be accessible to everyone for a small fee. Numerous experts and ‘Telling it like it is’ principal participant and art historian Patricia Utermohlen, the wife of the late William Utermohlen will lecture on the subject in different locations.

Discussions & Blogs

Telling It Like It Is : Book
'Creating Positive Cultures in Dementia Care'

'Telling it Like It Is: Creating Positive Cultures in Dementia Care' will be available late 2011/12.
Contributors to the book include: Prof. Linda Clare
Prof. Martin Rossor
Dr. Sebastian Crutch
Dr. Sandra Evans
Dr. Jane Garner
Andrew Balfour
Ian Morton
Rachael Davenhill (Editor)

Therapeutic Support Service

The Dementia Research Centre

Based at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, The Dementia Research Centre is a lead centre for the research, diagnosis and treatment of different forms of dementia. In line with the National Dementia Strategy (Department of Health, 2009) it is currently developing a number of programmes providing therapeutic support for people with dementia and their families and urgently needs funds for research into their effectiveness.


What is the Therapeutic Support Service?

The Therapeutic Support Service is currently unfunded and is a pilot service which aims to support individuals and family members in thinking about and adjusting to changes that are being faced during and after diagnosis. It is very common for people to experience feelings of loss, dismay and isolation on finding that their memory and capacity to think is not functioning as well as previously. Patient feedback consistently emphasises how important emotional support is at this time and we are currently seeking future funding in order to establish a permanent and comprehensive programme.


We believe it is as important for patients to have the opportunity for an ‘emotional scan’ as it is to be offered MRI scans and neurospsychological assessment as part of the diagnostic process. The pilot Therapeutic Support Service offers the possibility of two meetings initially. In the first meeting the therapist will meet with the person who has been referred and also their partner and/or family where possible. Following this a therapeutic pathway can then be planned which will best support the specific needs of each individual and their family.


Subsequent meetings with the therapist aim to provide a safe place to think about what is happening in the context of each persons’ whole life situation, past, present and future. The sessions will provide time and space to look at the emotional issues involved in living with dementia for the individual person with dementia and their family.