The Dementia Dialogue Two women discuss the disease, it’s impact on their lives, and share insights on ways to minimize the impact of this diagnosis. Through this conversation, they hope to open up the doors to a deeper understanding of their deeply personal dementia journeys. Kate Swaffer: Diagnosed (and ‘living’) with Younger Onset Dementia Kay Bransford: Assisting…
Doctor says an oil lessened Alzheimer’s effects on her husband By Eve Hosley-Moore, Times Correspondent Eve Hosley-Moore Tampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 “After two weeks of taking coconut oil, Steve Newport’s results in an early onset Alzheimer’s test gradually improved says his wife, Dr. Mary Newport. Before treatment, Steve could barely…
Sometimes we are so caught up in who’s right and who’s wrong we forget what’s right and wrong. I rarely know why the times I dig my heels in and have to be ‘right’, but it happens to all of us, and to some of us all of the time! Once the symptoms of dementia get in the way,…
Todays blog is based around the some notes I found from 2009, when I was a participant in a university research project. It was strange reading it again, as I had forgotten all about it, and don’t recall the exact nature of the research project, but think it was about women, chick flicks and female sexuality. However, I…
Appearing as if you are LUCKY virtually always comes through effort and so I usually spell lucky like this: HARD WORK! I heard recently that I have been called lucky because the symptoms of my dementia do not seem to be progressing as quickly as the initial prognosis predicted, or as some others who’ve been diagnosed. This…
“Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, grief and tears. Through it, in particular, we think, see, hear and distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant.” Hippocrates…
After reading an article titled Creation and copyright law: the case of 3D printing from The Conversation,it lead me to many other online articles about copyright, and of course I then wondered if the topic was worth of a blog. I have often wondered about copyright in relation to a conversation you might have with someone,…
Todays blog is to help promote a new book Foreign Encounters. Life on La Lune writes stories that always make me feel as if I am visiting France, as if I am there with the writer. Not quite the same as being there, but actually the next best thing, so I encourage you to visit her blog.…
Otherwise known as teamtlc, this group was started by four amazing women (wives of husbands with younger onset dementia) in April 2012. They met with senior staff of Alzheimer’s SA to see if they could start up a fundraising committee for Younger Onset dementia, after hearing that the program called Connexus for YOD families could no longer accept…
Thanks Butch from Mum and Dad Care for alerting me to this article Exercise May Protect Against Brain Shrinkage written by Anahad O’Connor for The New York Times. It discusses yet another research study about exercise helping our bodies and brains. Almost every chronic disease has studies linked to it proving exercise can and will help reduce…
Tony Buzan, the creator of Mind Mapping, says “A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of cortical skills – word, image, number, logic, rhythm, colour and spatial awareness – in a single, uniquely powerful manner. In so…
I probably written about one of my other blogs, but my recipe website In The Kitchen has slowly been developing. I’ve now started to transfer the daily recipe I post on this site on the In The Kitchen page where Kick off 2012 Project 366 has been happening since January 1st, onto the new site. This will make it…
There are ‘talks’ happening in Australia around the rating of nursing homes by some service providers. As I think about this, it seems to me the rating needs to be done by consumers, and not by the RACF’s or other professional organisations, and I’ve been thinking someone should set up a website similar to Trip Advisor for…
It’s another day when I really need a laugh and so the following email sent to me some years ago is to be my blog post today! Sometimes, if we don’t laugh, we would sit and cry and although crying can be incredibly healing, it is not always the best option as if you are facing ongoing challenges…
A friend overseas who is dealing with treatment for cancer wrote the following after I had shown her my head shave photos; “Thank you for sharing your photos and past history. It is helpful to share with people who have gone through some measure of this. I am supported by a lot of wonderful work…
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