Firstly, best wishes to everyone for Easter. It is a strange phenomenon that Christians, celebrate the story of a truly horrific torture of Jesus, and then His resurrection. In reality, I’ve lost my way, and have no idea if I believe in God anymore. Even non Christians get involved in the celebrations, via the commercialisation…
This video is a very thought-provoking insight into care of people in the community and in hospital. I noticed a dementia friend symbol on the lady’s bed at about 21 minutes, but felt the whole experience for this lady was so far from dementia friendly it made me cry. I have experienced it, in the…
It is Tuesday, which is meant to be my day of adding some humour into our lives… other than the Tom and Jerry cartoon via the link below, my tank is a bit low. I know there are lots of family stories lurking in the recesses of my mind,many of them very funny, and all…
Why We Ought to Take Blogs A Little More Seriously By Kayla Cruz “For some reason that I’ll never understand, a lot of people in the wonderful world of academia tend to hate bloggers. Maybe not hate-hate, but they certainly don’t take blogs seriously. Because apparently, if you’re not published in some fancy-pants journal, your work…
Once again, another fabulous writer and blogger Jeff Goins has introduced me to a blogger, Claire De Boer who has a blog called The Gift of Writing: Your story matters.Jeff Goins introduced her like this: Claire De Boer is a writer, editor, and mentor with a special interest in how story connects and heals us.…
Re-blogged with permission from a friend Ken Clasper’s blog, Living well with Lewy Body Dementia. Ken told me a little about where it came from: Please feel free to use this, because it came from my Mother. It has always made me think, when I read it. … my son and daughter have read it…
If so, here is a University of South Australia Research Project looking for participants. The Impact of Younger Onset Dementia on Employment Were you working when you were diagnosed with dementia? Was your partner or close family member working when they were diagnosed with dementia? If so, you may be interested in participating in a…
A trumpet call for ACTION to all Australians LIVING WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF DEMENTIA… Alzheimer’s Australia is currently conducting a survey about the experiences of people living with dementia. This survey will be used to help inform Alzheimer’s Australia work to create dementia-friendly communities across Australia. We are asking people living with a diagnosis of…
This is hilarious, and looks exactly like our wonderful Russian Blue cat Boris! It is a LOL watch, and made my day, a good clip for Tuesday humour!! Enjoy.
Kate Legge wrote a piece in The Australian, March 10-11 called ‘How do you shrink a big life into a small suitcase?‘ It was around the same time I had an article published in the Australian Journal of Dementia Care called ‘Human rights in residential aged care: a consumer’s perspective‘. The two articles look at…
Australia along with many other countries including the UK is focused on becoming dementia friendly. The Associations and Organisations advocating for people with dementia and their family carers are sitting around tables, inviting guest speakers to present at events and teach others how to make their organisations and communities dementia friendly. The UK have been…
Judge me if you’ve walked in my shoes Judge me if you’ve talked to me Judge me if you really know me Judge me not by my successes Judge me by how many times I get back up after I fall Judge me if you don’t know me Judge me if you haven’t asked me…
The People’s Choice Award is now open… I’ve entered the Best Australian Blogs 2014 Competition again this year, just for fun. The competition is now closed and there is a staggering 1125 entries. The Australian Writer’s Centre says; “We’re really excited about bringing together so many bloggers, and can’t wait to start reading your blogs.”…
When I was searching for an image for this blog, I found this ‘time out’ image, which was appropriate as I’ve needed some this week. Of course I found various pictures of children who had been naughty and made to go into time out, but I chose this image instead, as it better reflects how…
Last week I attended and spoke briefly at an event, where the guest speaker Rachael Litherland was an invited expert from the UK, being funded to tour Australia and discuss the work of dementia friendly comunities in the UK over the last 10 years. She highlighted the work on dementia friendly communities that has been…
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