6 tips for a healthy life
This is very good advice… and well aligned to what many are working at doing in the DAI Brain Health Hub. Possibly we don’t nap often enough!
The brain-changing benefits of exercise
Wendy SuzukiatTEDWomen 2017 Who would have guessed…
Unsuppressed anger
Earlier this year, a colleague and friend sent me an email about unsuppressed anger. I rarely used to get angry, in fact, to the point I had to learn how to. I grew up in a home full of anger and other types of hostility caused by untreated mental health in two members of my…
Banning PLOM Disease
Q & A on my personal advocacy
This blog has been sitting in the drafts folder since December last year… and for some reason, today seems the right day to publish it. As tired as I am, and as so many others also are, and regardless of the progression of dementia, we must not give up, nor give in because of people who…
Monica Lewinski on cyber bullying and shaming
I’ve been reading and processing a lot of literature and published content about cyber bullying and defamation over many years, and now, more particularly, the impact of this on people who are diagnosed with dementia. This particular TED Talk is worth watching, and has informed my thinking; at some stage, I hope to publish a…
I’ll be voting #1 for Kelly Vincent
February 27, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent – Media release Our champion team! Dignity Party MLC Kelly Vincent has announced the final lower house candidates, bringing to…
Assets based approaches and DFCs
Below are some screen shots of some positive comments via email and twitter following an article I co authored with my dear friend and colleague Shibley Rahman. If I was able to, I would have embedded the twitter comments, but alas, even after quite a few attempts, I gave up! So far, we have only…
Human rights, disAbility and dementia
I’ve been working on this article since before May 2017, but wanting to get it published as a response to the WHO The Global Plan of Action on the Public Health Response to Dementia 2017-2025 (Global Dementia Action Plan). This plan was unanimously adopted at the World Health Assembly in Geneva in May 2017, and…
Reminders life is good…
Waking up in the morning to find you still have a pulse Hanging out with positive people who support you Going for a walk or run Great food Good bullet proof coffee Listening to your favourite music Smelling freshly cut roses Meditation or Mindfulness, or both Trying out something new Joining a group of like-minded…
Human Rights Watch: Over sedation in nursing homes
The following video was published on YouTube by Human Rights Watch on February 5, 2018. Thanks to Susan MacCauley and Jason Burton from Alzheimer’s WA for highlighting it. Jason posted on LinkedIn: “Great new short video released to coincide with the Human Rights Report into misuse of antipsychotic medication in dementia care in USA. Hard…
Kindness
Social media brings with it a lot of benefits for those who feel isolated, or simply want to feel part of an online community, but it also brings with it, a lot of unkindness. Too many people write things they would probably never say to your face, and the evidence for kindness is…
Living with dementia is better than expected…
If people would proactively and positively support us to do so, and stop telling us all to go home and prepare to die, via aged care, living with dementia can be far more positive than I ever expected. I was interviewed in Singapore last year when support the Singapore Alzheimer’s Disease Association in an article in…
A conversation about ageing and dementia at MONA
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