It is that time of year again, when a group of us are focused on the annual SA fundraising event The Big Lunch 2014. A discounted rate has now also been offered for late comers, so please, if you haven’t already booked your ticket for 1 or table of 10, consider doing do. What I…
Another friend passed away this week. He and my dear husband have worked together for over 30 years, and so his grief for a lost friend and colleague is going to be significant. Nothing of course compared to that of the family and more intimate friends, but grief is not something we can compare. For…
This is the video recording of a recent Webinar hosted by A Meeting of the Minds, as part of our advocacy and collaboration with Dementia Alliance International and others. Our topic was specifically the language being used globally around dementia, and the impact it can have on people with dementia. Copyright: Dementia Alliance International and…
From the SA Advance Care Directives Project Team… You may be aware the new Advance Care Directives Act 2013 (SA) and changes to the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act 1995 and Guardianship and Administration Act 1993 come into effect on 1 July 2014. Together these changes pave the way for a rights-based, person-centred approach to decision-making…
This Bear, Lion and Tiger Are the Most Unlikely Gang Of Friends You’ll Come Across. They came from a background of abuse and fear. Now they’ve bonded together and are truly inseparable. This is Leo the African Lion, Baloo the Black Bear, and Shere Khan the Bengal Tiger. The threesome were rescued as babies from…
On a site I follow called The Gift of Writing, Natalie Trust wrote an insightful blog Paper Can Handle the Truth. In the second sentence she says this: “The ink giving way to emotion, letters becoming large and lose, traveling down the page. With each phrase scrawled in my journal, I felt a little bit…
Today is a short blog, referring you to a video interview by Dr Nancy Snyderman of one of the world’s top physicians Dr Eric Topol, by the Rock Centre. He says the key to better medicine is the Smartphone. Apologies I have not been able to embed this video, but please do follow the link…
Advocating has been quite a bumpy road the last few days, and many times I have thought, “just give up”, or “it is not worth the personal attacks”. One email friend from Western Australia who had heard from her colleagues about an issue I had last week sent an email of support, with this image…
I was in Sydney last week for the HammondCare RiskyBusiness2 conference, and on Friday I co-presented with the vice chair of the Alzheimer’s Australia Dementia Advisory Committee (AADAC) about the set up and activities of that committee. My other presentation was on models of care and ways of keeping people with younger onset dementia employed.…
The latest blog from Dementia Alliance International, one of our founders and Board members sharing part of her story. The second DAI newsletter is downloadable here DAI Newsletter 02_The Advocate_2014 How would you feel if you encountered this? By Dena Dotson How would you feel if slowly but very steadily, you were having more and…
I am re-blogging this from a blog I follow, Exploring Dementia: We can learn more when we learn it together, and find this list provided very useful. Sincere thanks to Jamie Hede for alerting me to this list and the book it came from, “The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Care.” This is a very…
Now that my neurophysiotherapist has seen last Tuesdays blog, I feel I can no longer blame him for not keeping up with my uni work!!! Maybe I just don’t want to be thought of like this… which, by the way, cracked me up!!?
The information below has come from the Alzheimer’s Australia NSW Library & Information Service News, and is a very important piece of work. On June 15 it was World Elder Abuse Day which although not everyone with dementia is older, the majority are, and it makes the following quote and information even more relevant. “All…
Maggie Weidmark from Canada shares her story on the 7th Dementia Alliance International Blog,Sharing my experience with dementia. I am uploading the video here, but you will need to go to the DAI website for her full presentation notes.
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