All for a bit of fun and a day off from writing my own blog (!), sent to me via email by a friend Ian G @gladbags with Semantic Dementia, proving even people with dementia still have a sense of humour… Enjoy! My wife and I had words, but I didn’t get to use…
Dr Dennis Gillings is the World Dementia Envoy, appointed by the UK Prime Minister in February 2014. The creation of this role was agreed at the G8 dementia summit in December 2013. Dr Gillings is a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry and founder of Quintiles. The envoy’s role involves working with the newly created World…
In reality I have a lot of news to blog about today, but can’t get my head around how to write it up. Then as it is Tuesday, I was looking for something for my Tuesday humour theme, this popped up, so for today, as I have been online for more than a year, I…
Most of the time I don’t promote specific organisations or businesses, but this clip on YouTube, brought to my attention by a friend thanks Phillip E), is worth adding here. It talks about not only improving the environment, simple things like light and going outside, as well as activities for people with dementia, but how…
It was a long and rather tedious day last Friday. I attended a SA Health “Transforming Health Summit”, and not only was there nothing about dementia, when I and others brought it up, people like the Honourable Jack Snelling M.P. (Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) and the appointed Clinical Ambassador…
Before a diagnosis of dementia, if I went walking, Even if it was ‘wandering’ through a shopping centred for pleasure, It was still referred to as walking Wandering along the beach with the sand between my toes Was still considered walking When I go walking, even if I get lost, I am not a wanderer……
Doll therapy, Montessori, childish Apps on iPads and a whole range of other children’s activities that are encouraged for people with dementia seem to me to miss the point. Using activities that children engage in to ‘amuse’ us – and then call them meaningful activities – is something I tend to think is patronising and insulting.…
This week I visited Winchelsea and presented to the staff at the Hesse Rural Health service, and also at their AGM on my personal experience of living well with younger onset dementia, and about the advocacy work I am doing globally and in Australia. I talked about how I believe I am living well with dementia…
One of my special friends Robyn Verrall who used to be a nurse as well as a brilliant medical rep, and now lives on a farm near Keith in South Australia often starts a sentence in a blog or a Facebook post or tweet like this… “It started like this… ” then tells the (mostly)…
Thanks to Beth Britton @bethyb1886 for referring me to this article UCLA study: Non-drug treatment may reverse Alzheimer’s. More than any other research article I have read, this confirms the value – and importance – of the regime of non pharmacological and positive psychosocial interventions I have been undertaking, many of them more than once…
The incidence of dementia is actually slowing down in some countries, and increasing in others, and although there is some evidence to support this, today is not about research. Don’t get me wrong, I have a very healthy respect for research and academics, perhaps am even becoming one, but it is now always about research.…
A ‘work’ Christmas lunch With Alzheimer’s Australia The first in six years Something I never expected To ever happen again!
When I was nursing in operating theatres in the late 70’s, TGIF was a common saying, to the point I embroidered it onto some mens ties to give people for Christmas one year! I’m on my way to Canberra for the day, partly for work, and partly for my first ‘work’ Christmas event for many…
On Wednesday 28 May, 2014, my blog had it’s highest daily activity with 2,438 views and 1919 visitors. The stats page breaks it down further, saying it had 1.27 views per visitor. I’m not sure I know what the difference is between views and visitors, or what that last figure means either, but does that…
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