As well as a haiku today, I thought I’d add these 12 tips to avoid online scams. We are all suspect to receiving them, and in fact I received about 5 emails yesterday that were Shipping Notification Scams, which had I not seen this and been reminded of the criminal, inhumane scammers, I might have fallen for their trap!…
Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care Cleveland Clinic Published on Feb 27, 2013 Patient care is more than just healing — it’s building a connection that encompasses mind, body and soul. If you could stand in someone else’s shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel.…
December is the time of year we often take stock of our friendships. For most people, the diary is full of social commitments, racing towards Christmas day when families and special friends are together. Christmas time is either something you love and look forward to or dread, and for many people, it is a time of…
This video interview was made for the recent South Australian Dementia Forum held on 5 December 2013. At this event, a large number of experts, health care professionals and consumers, including carers and people with dementia attended to listen, learn, and workshop about how to improve the care of people with dementia and mild cognitive…
Most of you know one of my favourite organisations is The Big Issue. People with dementia who are homeless are also a very marginalised group, as they don’t have the funding for health care, and the public sector is a much slower pathway to diagnosis for them than most others. This morning I watched a short…
The last two weeks touring three states with the Whose Shoes? communication tool created by my friend Gill Phillips of Nutshell Communications saw us much too busy most of the time to do more than sleep, and then not for long enough. Along the way, in part due to two very quirky senses of humour together…
I met the young woman in this photo when we were both not quite 17, and this year, we have both turned 55. She is in the photo with the young man who she was engaged to in this photo and married, and they are both my lifelong friends. Jac and I nursed together, and…
She entered the shores of Australia In search of our cuddliest Koala, Blair Gum leaves galore But so much more And nothing like The other Mr Blair! We teamed up So much within our reach Creating opportunities For learning and transformation In between hysterical laughing And Master classes galore Gumby and Pokey slightly bored The Woodentops making up for…
Tuesday humour is my theme, and there is no joke in the file, but this image tells a thousand words anyway, and was a lot of fun preparing for. No sign of a mirror, mobile phone too old to make do, so adding Gill’s lipstick was entirely up to me… all for a quick pic…
One long poem.. It’s so great to know everything and even after years of diagnoses lacking in investigations and not finding genetic malformations or real diseases changing life from one of health to pain and malfunctioning always told the same thing there is nothing wrong with you other than you are a type A personality or going through a stressful…
There has been a small groundswell of people speaking out about the discrimination, stigma and downright nastiness of others against the elderly, and in particular people with dementia. I posted a comment on this article; “Whatever happened to equal rights for people with disabilities or impairments, and to humanity, and compassion??? I am as shocked by…
Pete is neat Pete is great I love Pete Pete’s my best mate
Originally posted on One World Rising:
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
It feels as if I am being pulled by a stronger force not to publish a blog some days, a vaguely conscious decision, but one coming from somewhere else. There is no valid reason not to blog every day, and there is also no valid reason to do so either. The value of writing privately or publicly, is…
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