It is Day 25 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I am feeling exhausted from so much blogging here and for Dementia Alliance International! Go figure… Anyway, I thought I’d write a short blog, based on something I read recently written by a young researcher in Queensland who I follow, Siobhan O’Dwyer. I’d suggest the caption…
It is, obviously, still World Alzheimer’s Month 2015, so for Day 24 #DAM2015, and also making my life a little easier this week, I have found another article I wanted to re-blog, written and published on World Alzheimer’s Day this week by a colleague who I have not yet had the pleasure to meet in the UK, Damien…
It is Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, and I had promised a few of my personal and online friends about the outcome of flying to Perth for lunch today, I am proud to announce I won an award today, the Bethanie Medallion, for my service to the dementia and aged care sector. This year, they opened it up…
On Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I wanted to post an old blog of mine, written a couple of years ago, seemed a good one to repost. Obviously many people who follow my blog now, were not doing so then and may not have ventured further than reading blogs from when they started following me.…
For Day 22 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, I am re-blogging a post written on Belledelettres’s Blog by a friend in Scotland, who I had been online friends with and had the pleasure to meet in person in Edinburgh whilst over there this year. It is an important piece… Professor Steven Sabat is one of…
It is World Alzheimer’s Day, 21 September 2015, and all around the world there are events and meetings to celebrate the day, as a way of recognising the work of the organisations who advocate for us, and also where there are many conversations about the issues we face such as isolation and stigma. I still believe, whilst so many…
On Day 18 of World Alzheimer’s Awareness Month 2015 #WAM2015, or as I prefer to call it World Dementia Month or Dementia Awareness Month 2015, #DAM2015, I had the pleasure of listening to a geriatrician Dr Jane Tolman present at the Better Practice conference in Launceston: Dementia: how did we get it so wrong?. Some of her…
As I’ve been committed to two blogs a day for Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I’ve been reviewing old writings to see if there was any value in revisiting go of the issues! Some time ago I set up a blog called One Big Rant… where a few friends and I were going to have regular…
For Dementia Awareness Month 2015, (otherwise Trademarked as World Alzheimer’s Month), and realising I have gone off track of the theme I was going to follow for #DAM2015, which was to be women and dementia, men and dementia, then families and dementia, children and dementia and so on, I thought I’d come back to this theme,…
It is Day 15 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I feel that it is time we talked about the use of the term “Day” care or “Day” respite. Yes, I know it refers to an adult service, that does not include accommodation overnight, hence the rationale to use these terms, but as far as…
It is Day 14, and almost the middle of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I decided the topic of Dementia and common sense was a worthwhile one to write about, as I believe generally speaking common sense is missing in our care. I often think about common sense, and wonder it has gone these days, not just…
It seems to me, that the media is either being ‘fed’ research a certain way via media releases from researchers, trying to highlight their own research, or they simply choose to misrepresent issues and research presenting them as ’causes’ or ‘cures’ of diseases such as dementia for the purpose of readership and sales. It is often scurrilous sensationalism, and…
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