The Iron Lady passed away last week, and there has been almost no mention of the fact that Thatcher had dementia during this last week – the stigma remains. A friend alerted me to this article about the movie, published in The London Telegraph in 2012. I’m going to begin this blog today with the last paragraph…
Shared Lives Plus by Alex Fox Please read this inspiring and enterprising account of the use of family homes instead of expensive institutions. They all work on a small or family sized scale and they show how personal relationships can be more effective than professional or client transactions.
It is easy to become despondent about one’s own difficulties, or about the usual snails pace of change, but once the ripple in the pond has been started, as long as we don’t give up, positive and sometimes even great things can be achieved. This week has seen the announcement of an exciting milestone. Joan Jackman is…
For the times I want to indulge myself with some R&R, I spend time trawling other blogs, many that I subscribe to. I often read something called the Oracle Report provided on a link from One World Rising, and one phrase today stood out like the proverbial dogs balls!!! It has given life to a draft I had started…
Reverse the roles… this could be Mum visiting me in a Residential Aged Care Facility… (image from Google, not of my mother and I!) Some time ago Kay Bransford asked me this question: “We recently had to force my parents into Assisted Living. Everyone around them tried to recommend changes to get them the assistance they needed and…
Here is the link to some of the speeches from the Younger Onset Dementia: A new horizon 2013 summit. I can only have faith the enormous effort, and the toll it took on me, and I am sure the other people with dementia and their loving family supporters will be worth it. Glenn Rees, the CEO of Alzheimer’s…
A lazy blogging Sunday for me as I am reblogging instead of writing my own! However, the two blogs about memory being posted today are worth reading. Thanks Jami and Nate. Enjoy your day, and remember to love more deeply, laugh more often, forgive yourself and anyone you feel has wronged you, dance occasionally, and…
For almost my whole life I had dreamed of attending an opera at Teatro alla Scala , and in 2011, we were there. It wasn’t an opera, but a modern ballet as it was the only performance available the time we were there, but it was enough. Just being there was enough. I have little…
Since ADI 2012 in London, I have maintained contact with a few people I met from Scotland, many who are members of the Scottish Dementia Working Group. This is the eleventh year they have been operating, and they are a powerful voice and strong advocates for all people with dementia, as well as a wonderful…
Yesterday I decided it was time for me to stand up and be counted. There was a rally on the steps of Parliament House in Adelaide, and I decided to attend and support the organisation, SAVES – South Australian Voluntary Euthanasia Society. I had already started this blog about VE, and decided to add my ‘coming…
This is probably the daily question for many people around the world, especially those of us who are writing about very personal issues! My private blog gets a real blast, where there is no holding back, no worrying about offending others, or being told my feelings are wrong, or being told off, as some bleaders…
I’ve been reminded over the weekend (thanks Mandy S) of a woman called Anne Davis Bastings, author of a wonderful book Forget Memory. Mandy also alerted me to Anne’s TimeSlip’s Creative Storytelling program and I recommend you have a look. There is another version of this type of storybook called Storybird and the poem created…
Call me crazy, or demented (??!!), or maybe just plain stupid, but I’ve accepted a new challenge today: 30 poems in thirty days, starting today! Well, actually I’m only one of those things, but I love new challenges, and find them inspiring, and great fun to participate in, even if I don’t complete the, and…
To whom I may concern “The Real World of Alzheimer’s” Published on Mar 22, 2013 To Whom I May Concern is an interactive theatre project, where the stories of people with dementia are respectfully gathered and become the basis for the script of a play. The play is performed by a group of people with dementia,…
Lots of you have already voted for me… Thank you. For those who haven’t (yet??) I wanted to add some comments. The process is not as simple as some Survey Monkeys I have used as you have to go through every page clicking the NEXT button to finally get to the page where you HAVE to add…
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