A long week behind me Filled with mixed emotions Unexpected news A girlfriend with late stage cancer Then an incredible high of Meeting Roly Sussex, and Sharing a program in Brisbane With the wonderful Mick Carmody More funerals Then the news of Margot’s death Very little blogging Even less DAI Book edits very overdue, A PhD proposal to…
If you search in googleimages.com for an image to match the term ‘Day Care’ you mostly only find images for children day care services and centres, as per this image I have added today! I wrote the following for a friend and colleague, to read out at a conference who is attending soon with an audience…
Today I am posting information from the Alzheimer’s Society UK website, on risk factors for dementia. Research has identified many risk factors associated with dementia. It’s impossible to eliminate every single one; after all we can’t avoid age, which is the most significant. Medical conditions such as diabetes, stroke and heart problems, as well as…
Thanks to my good friends, Lynda and Veda from Gerringong in NSW, near Kiama, I have been alerted to the following resource on Frontotemporal Disorders. Do follow the link to the full article, but I have added most of the text below, as well as a table which simplifies it. Special thanks also to Lynda for your hard…
Just for something different (!?), I am going to once again discuss the topic of being a care partner of a person with dementia, of which there are more women than men, and the reality that the person living with someone who is diagnosed with dementia, is not living with dementia, but instead they are living with someone diagnosed…
This was brought recently to my attention via social media, either Facebook or Twitter, although I can’t remember which one. I had not heard of the word, or did not remember it, which is not the issue here, but the meaning of the word has been playing with my heart-strings ever since. Initially it brought…
As we sit and watch The one we love in the last stages of dying The hardest thing to say is “It is ok to let go” Let go and move on Find your freedom in the next world I will be here You will be there But you will never be forgotten Take your last breath…
Some time ago, I became friends online with Michael Horvich, and this poem not only moved me to tears, it helped me see the role of the family care partner differently, as if somehow it had softened my edges. I have been reading his poems again today, after learning the news of his partner Gregory’s imminent…
On Day 7 of Dementia Awareness Month this year, I wrote a blog called Dementia and love, and there was a lot of feedback on it. One reader, who is a woman in Nigeria doing amazing things for people with dementia there, made this wonderful suggestion in her comments to the blog yesterday, which I re-shared on Facebook…
Phew!!! It is almost over! I have been blogging twice a day for the whole of World Alzheimer’s Month / Dementia Awareness Month, #DAM2015, and am feeling vaguely jaded… I wonder why?! To say it has been a slog, is an understatement, and I have not been that well either, so it has definitely taken its toll. In…
What can i say… well not that much today, but, I am delighted to report I have been in a teleconference for over an hour discussing a research project around the theory of Prescribed Disengagement™. Woo Bloody Hoo! I really do have a lot more to day on this, but this slide for now says…
As we are getting near the end of this years World Alzheimer’s Month, I have been reflecting on what difference it has made to the lives of people living with dementia. Perhaps though, parts of these campaigns are doing more harm than good? Firstly, for much of the time and in most countries, this month #WAM2015…
Reposting a blog for Day 27 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, #DAM2015 Day 27, on living alone, by a dear friend and colleague, Dr Judy Galvin… I wrote this when I first published it here: [Again] Today I am publishing a guest blog, written by a woman I am honoured to know, and whom I often…
A special friend Dr Peter Gordon, whom we had the absolute pleasure to meet with his wife and daughter (his son as away) in Scotland earlier in the year, writes from the heart and soul of his own humanity. I very much appreciate his intellect, his humour, his depth of character, his willingness to stand up for…
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