title: The wrong shoes living with memory loss.
abstract: Last month I gave my inaugural professorial lecture at Northumbria University. My chair is in Admiral Nursing and the position is jointly funded by Northumbria University and the national charity for dementia. It is an honour to hold the position for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it is the first post of its type that is dedicated to dementia care nursing (in its broadest terms), and it gives me an opportunity to work with experienced, community-based mental health nurses with a specialist focus in dementia care - a background similar to my own and an interest that has always been very close to my heart ( Keady et al 2003 ).
authors.affiliation: Northumbria University.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Keady
authors.affiliation: Person with memory loss, and father to John.
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Keady