Following on from my blog yesterday about feeling like a number of people on Facebook were indulging in cyber bullying against me, overnight, it raised to a new level, and I have reported some of them, and also deactivated my Facebook account. They self righteously say online they are not bullying me, but how it…
Lately, yet more ‘people’ online, who asked to be ‘friends’ on Facebook, have been dishing out what I felt was some extremely personal, mean and nasty feedback. I don’t even know if they are a really the people they say they are, or are using pseudonyms. Sadly, I thought we had resolved it privately, but it seems not as there was…
In Australia, mining, other industry, and regional and housing development is slowly destroying the habitat of our Koala. I’ve had friends from the UK and Wales visit me in Adelaide, and I hired a mini bus and took them on a trip to visit our wineries, including a gourmet lunch with a great view at The Lane…
The feedback from the Insight program from many people was overall very positive, but some “were deflated by it, saying it totally bypassed the realities of people with moderate-advanced dementia”, and one family support person said it “showed dementia through rose-tinted glasses”. I’m adding a few snippets of feedback here, without people’s names for their privacy. I would…
For those who want to see this, and missed it on Tuesday night, here is the recording of the SBS Insight program, Dancing with Dementia, featuring a number of Australians. It attempted to show the dark and lighter sides of dementia, which I feel was achieved. That challenge for us trying to live better with dementia,…
At the Perth ADI2015 conference recently, one of my abstracts was accepted as a poster presentation, attached here as a PDF Not Just A Challenging Behaviour_ADI2015_jpg for those of you who have asked for a copy of it or who are interested in downloading it. The image here is a screen shot of the top of the poster, which I…
I received this article via an untraceable Avatar on the contact form of my blog, and am sharing it, as I feel it is worthy of public expression. To enhance the blog, I have added the Dementia Alliance International mantra, which we use as an image. Whoever, you are, thank you for having some light bulb…
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the Anzac Troops at Gallipoli, and there have been many very moving Dawn Services and ceremonies around the country and world, with Anzac Marches now in progress. This is an image of the Anzac Day Dawn Service at Groote Eylandt, via a friend, Wendy Barnfield who moved up there to live…
Saying farewell and giving one final hug to friends (new and old) who respect you, understand you, and whose love is 100% unconditional is hard work. My B.U.B. and I talked about this and I then blogged Wrapped in a cocoon after attending our first ADI conference in 2012; we have talked about it again today as we have…
Kay Bransford and I have been following each others blogs for a long time. We even started an online conversation The Dementia Dialogue, which was short lived, but valuable at the time. I think this blog is worth reading in full, so follow the link if you are interested in your online safety, and what…
The last three or four weeks I was doing a short Rethinking Ageing MOOC course at Melbourne University, which I resigned from yesterday, as it is was too time consuming, for no really meaningful outcomes. I gather it was just a way to encourage people to sign up to the University for full degrees, but did not encourage me to…
Soon, I believe, society will need to legislate for changes around inclusion in employment in the same way Aboriginal Australians had to, those people living with other disAbilities have had to, and in the way women have had to fight for equality for many years (sadly, these groups still have to), for any sense of…
Well, it has been a frantic few days, and between the conference presentations, activities, the Dementia Alliance International stand and various meetings, it has been especially busy. On top of that, there has been a bit of a frenetic pace on social media happening as well, as we have all been trying to keep those…
It has been a busy couple of days, and after four presentations, and a lot of other things to do I am feeling exhausted. However, we have a conference dinner tonight, which John Sandblom and I are making a supreme effort to attend in part to honour ADI and Glenn Rees in particular for their support…
Whilst it is technically Day 1 of #ADI2015, yesterday at 4pm the first official function was held which was a welcome for people with dementia and their supporters. This conference is perhaps a record breaking event for ADI and Alzheimer,er’s Australia, as there are currently almost 1100 registrations, and approximately 10% of the registered delegates for…
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