I have no recollection of adding this before as a blog post, and it was an oversight I only added it to my Resources page recently, but it is a MUST watch, at least 10 times, for anyone caring for the elderly, and especially if it is a person with dementia. ps I tried several times…
We’ve been watching a cooking program called Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry on SBS, where “two fun-loving, food devotees Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to Italy together to remember their own pasts and discover how the culinary capital of the world is changing the way it cooks and eats. The two kings of Italian…
Last week I attended a meeting of the Coromandel Valley Quilters club, supporting someone from the The Bereaved Through Suicide Support Group Inc. as they were one of six recipients of $500 being donated by the quilters club. It was with some shock when another group, Tender Loving Carers (a new group set up in South…
Stolen dreams Our dreams are stolen By the world of dementia One by one they go Crying alone With losses so great So many hidden from you We must cry alone Losses So small yet so sad Tragic incremental deaths Of all our functions Dreams One day they are there The next day they start to…
This is the title I have given a book I’ve started writing for young children who have a parent with dementia. It sounds a little confronting, especially when I read it!! Why have I chosen this title? I suppose because I often wonder what it will mean to my sons when I forget them? These…
Yesterday in a practice session of one of the interviewing techniques of Narrative Therapy, I was interviewed about a recent problem in my life. I elected to discuss the impact of losing my driver’s license, and unearthed a mini maelstrom of feelings I had not given much thought to previously. I’d thought the emotional burden…
I’ve published parts of the last two paragraphs of this blog before, but felt it worthy of re-blogging. Death and dying is a part of life, and the bonus of being given the possibility of a more finite time to live is that it does make you think very deeply about your life. Yes, I do believe it is…
Today I’m launching a new blog Global Dementia Voices to encourage people with dementia to tell their stories, to write about their concerns and to help those caring for them to more fully understand what it is really like for them. The idea came from meeting a woman who volunteers for Cancer Voices SA, a survivor of…
Todays blog is from the Dementia and Elderly Care News: NICE Pathways is an online tool which brings together summaries of selected NICE guidelines, and related information, in a set of interactive topic-based flowcharts. Topic headings are arranged in an alphabetical index. Topics of likely interest (sampled late September 2012) currently include: Delirium Dementia Depression Hip fracture…
Dear Kate, This letter is being written to you to help you take stock of yourself, to help you remember YOUR glass is half full!!! Just because you have been diagnosed with dementia, and are finding it harder to paddle to get anywhere, this is no reason to give up. Sometimes you might have to paddle…
Life is not what it used to be, and this evolving world with Mister Larry Dementia (the third of The Three Stooges) is taking its toll!!! I went to a Consumers Alliance SA forum this morning, but only lasted to lunch time, about 3 hours and then came home to rest. So far I’ve not…
The D-word is almost like the C or F words used to be, too upsetting to say out loud. The word dementia is simply too confronting or challenging to talk about or face up to for so many people. Not just the friends and family who don’t know how to cope with someone they love telling them they…
Lately, there are more days when the symptoms of dementia are getting in the way and I am lost for words, and find the writing of my blog more challenging than even a few weeks ago. Will I stop, or give up? I can’t see that happening yet! Whenever the words escape me, I’ll simply I…
One thing we did at home a lot when I was a kid was laugh as my father was a practical joker! Life wasn’t always ‘fun’ as we were relatively poor and it was tough on the farm, but laughing was a way to see past the hard work and numerous battles that we had.…
As a society, more and more people are turning to drugs, prescription or otherwise, to manage their stress and anxiety, rather than to healthy or holistic ways to stay healthy. A quick fix seems to be in order in our western world these days, the fast food of health; a trip to the GP, pick…
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