Nine To Noon for Monday 19 September 2022

09:05 Crisis in dementia care, as numbers set to triple

Dementia patients are having home help reduced or withdrawn due to staff shortages and poor funding according to advocates, who say the situation will only get worse. Alzheimers New Zealand says there is a crisis in dementia care, as home help is eroded and residential care beds become more difficult to secure. It says people living with dementia in their own homes face reduced care assistance - carers who sometimes don't turn up, or a full withdrawal of such help. The organisation says the sector is chronically underfunded,  and the country is unprepared for a tripling in the number of people with dementia expected in the coming years. Lynn speaks to Catherine Hall, the chief executive of Alzheimers New Zealand, and also hears from two women caring for their husbands who have dementia; Adrienne Henderson and Tanya Lyders.

09:30 New bill aims to do away with bureaucratic gobbledygook

A new plain language bill now before parliament aims to do away with jargon laden documents and make official government documents more accessible and understandable. However, there is little detail on how plain language will be defined and how the law would be implemented. Opposition parties say the law will create more bureaucracy and establish language police. University of Waikato Linguistics lecturer, Dr Andreea Calude and law lecturer Sam Campbell talk to Lynn Freeman about what needs to happen for the bill to meet its aims.

09:45 Europe: EU parliament slams Hungary as 'autocracy'

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney joins Lynn to talk about the pressure building on Hungary to urgently address concerns about its commitment to democracy and the principles on which the EU was founded. The European Commission has proposed cutting billions of euros in funding to Hungary if it doesn't deal with corruption concerns.

10:05 Inside the mind of con artists: Sohom Das

Con artists - we just can't get enough of them, going by the number of podcasts and TV shows devoted to revealing their treachery and ferreting out their victims. Scamfluencers, Scam Likely, Persona, Liar Liar, British Scandal and Kloughless and are among the most popular recently. Dr Sohom Das is a busy London-based Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist who's become a go-to when people want to understand what drives con artists. He often appears as an expert witness in court cases and he's written about some of his cases in his book In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist. He also hosts a YouTube channel, named 'A Psych for Sore Minds'.

10:35 Book review - The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

Gail Pittaway reviews The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman, published by Penguin Random House NZ

10:45 The Reading

The Writing Class, episode 10. Written by Stephanie Johnson, and told by Alison Quigan.

11:05 Political commentators: Neale Jones and Tim Hurdle

Political commentators Neale Jones and Tim Hurdle join Lynn to talk about the Prime Minister joining other world leaders at the Queen's funeral, the latest Curia-Taxpayers' Union poll and will the hip pocket pressures of inflation and interest rates drown out any story around headline data re GDP and unemployment?

Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to Andrew Little. He is the director of public affairs firm Capital.

Tim Hurdle is a former National party advisor and was campaign director for National at the 2020 election.

11:30 Easy recipes that keep the grocery bill down

Linda Duncan was an accountant for 25 years before turning her budgeting skills to writing a best-selling series of cookbooks, called The World's Easiest Recipes. All her recipes are designed to have just a couple of steps, and use common, everyday ingredients you usually have in the pantry and fridge. Linda's hope is to make cooking as easy and affordable as possible, and crucially, with minimal wastage. She's got a heap of ideas for keeping the grocery bill down. Her top tips include only shopping once a week; aiming to spend $20 under budget so you have wiggle room if you run out of something during the week, and also to never purchase an odd ingredient that you're only going to use in one recipe. Lynn speaks to Linda Duncan about her tips and shares her recipe for 'Four-Ingredient Shepherd's Pie'. 

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Kennedy takes us off the beaten track to Bruny Island, off the coast of Hobart, and returns to Uluru, where climbing of the sacred rock ceased in 2019, but tourism is bigger than ever.

Music played in this show

Track: Back to You
Artist: Pacific Heights ft Louis Baker
Time played: 9:35

Track: Get Sun
Artist: Hiatus Kaiyote
Time played: 10:45