Kate Swaffer is committed to meaningful dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders about the critical issues impacting a person living with a diagnosis of dementia and their loved ones,
and striving …
to be inspirational, motivated and positive; loving, adventurous, serious when I need to be; courteous, compassionate, kind, conscientious, courageous, thoughtful, honest, fun-loving, and attentive to detail. I also strive to be focused, to live a good life, to wear clean shoes and to use my manners.
Australian of the year, 2017, South Australia
University of Wollongong Alumni Social Impact Award, 2016
100 Women of Influence (Australia), 2016
I am living every day as if it’s my last, just in case it is. I urge you to do the same!
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Hello from cyberspace! What a happy discovery I have made in reading your blog! It’s always nice to meet someone who inspires, albeit in the ether. I will continue to follow you! Much joy!
Hello right back at you from cyberspace, always nice to meet a new online friend! Take care, and it is terrific to connect xx
Dear Kate
I wonder would it be possible for me to get a copy of the talk you gave at the Geneva Global Dementia summit in March 2015. I am currently writing a book on human rights and dementia and would very much like to use part of it in one of the chapters. Obviously if permission is granted I will acknowledge that this is your transcript.
With kind regards
Suzanne Cahill
Director
DSIDC
St James’s hospital
Dublin Ireland and
Trinity College Ireland.
Of course. Would it be ok to email you… using the email you used for this comment (which is private here, apart from me)?
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What a beautiful, meaningful and inspiring blog. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Thank you popculturedfangirl… and for leading me to yours.
Wonderful blog!
Thanks Martha…
[add 2014 to your copyright :-)]
thanks! x
Hello Kate,
I am just going to get straight to the point….you totally inspire me! Thank you. xx Tracey Moonsparkle
Thank you Tracey… love your ‘moonsparkle’ name too! very appropriate 😉
Kate, can I have your permission to copy this entry in your blog into my blog in its entirety? All necessary acknowledgements of the source and author will be made. This message needs to be read by everyone, whether family carer, PWD, extended family members, medical practitioners, professional carers and care facility managers. Thank you for posting.
Peter
Hi Peter, You have my permission, although I’m not sure which entry you mean. Thank you for supporting my blog on yours too. Take great care of yourself. Kate
I have nominated you for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award at http://pifuk67.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
Thank you for sharing your journey and for being inspiring.
Thank you Patrick xo
I saw your you-tube video and it tugged at my heart. You are doing a wonderful thing by sharing your journey.
Thank you Denise, and for joining me here.
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and sooner or later, I’ll get onto your questions for our Dementia Diaries blog…
Wow, what an interesting life! I wonder if you are an gemini like I am – never content with doing just one thing?
Cancerian, but just as interested in doing new things!
I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award! Please feel free to accept or do nothing as you wish. Keep on writing!
http://frangipanisingaporenicum.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/versatile-blogger-award/
I am paying it forward and awarding the versatile blogger award to you.
You deserve it!
~ Miss Kitty Roads
(http://misskittyroads.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/versatile-blogger/)
Hi Kate, I know this is a very small token in comparison to what you’re sharing on this incredible blog, but I would like to nominate you for Versatile Blogger Award (http://sallypanayiotou.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/the-versatile-blogger/ )
Thank you Sally. I have been awarded this before, but always find it very difficult to follow all the rules, so will now have another go at it! Glad you like my blog, and for showing me to yours, which I can keep up with now that I know about it. I really like the way you have themed it too.
Dear Kate, I shall follow your blog with interest. You have accepted your diagnosis early, and are not in denial. Wonderful! You are able to express what you see from what I would call “that side”. I may be able to understand my Joanna’s thinking as she progressed. I could only ever read her expressions, because verbal skills disappeared early. I have read a lot on Alzheimers, and tried to relate it to our experience. There are a lot of myths there. The journey begins a long time before awareness and diagnosis. Keep that brain working hard! Never relax! Jeff.
Dear Jeff, I have just re-read this and realise now how long you have been following my journey. I also apologise for not responding to you at the time you wrote this. Strangely, it feels like we know each other now, and I would miss your regular feedback! Take care, and thank you once again for your support and encouragement. I did take your advice… I still don’t relax too much!! Kate