This video is an excerpt of “End of Life Care & Letting Go”, a 2 hour training DVD for caregivers. Teepa Snow, a nationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s and dementia care specialist, teaches her students how a person with dementia perceives his/her world and how to properly adapt one’s own behavior to increase communication and mutual understanding.…
Recently I heard about this anacronym, H.E.A.R.S. when working with another professional when planining a training day for volunteer suicide grief support group workers. The context for its use was for helping volunteer support workers engage with newly bereaved people, when it can be challenging to communicate at the best of times due to the rawness of grief,…
Sometimes living in the now is made difficult by not being able to remember our past, or our future plans. Although the positive psychology movement and motivators may say ‘make the best of what you have’, which is a great mantra and I aspire to all the time, it isn’t always easy to live with not being able…
Star now gone to that place where sleeping cats go Boris still looking for her, everywhere facing the loneliness, lost from his playfulness yearning for his playmate missing the cat dance they played together at night the daytime antics, the lizards brought inside which she watched him torment until I saved it from their games She mothered him and bossed…
One magazine I subscribe to is Management Today, which I find not only interesting, but often discover many parallels between business and management when I think about the impact of dementia and the way in which people are currently cared for. The KISS principle – Keep It Simple Stupid, or Keep It Small and Simple – came to mind with…
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Last week we were very honoured to attend and run a workshop at the 23rd Alzheimer Europe Conference ‘Living well in a dementia-friendly society’, Malta 10-12 October 2013. I attended with Shahana Ramsden. We have written this blogpost together and published…
Most of us would agree that in the workforce, the most fundamental skills required in any organisation are language, literacy and numeracy (LLN). They enable us to process information, communicate effectively and contribute to productivity and performance, as well as socialisation, team building and our general ability to enjoy our job and work environment. These skills also arm…
Tuesday is meant to be my day for adding something funny, but I can’t think of anything funny to write, and have run out of homework!! Anyway, a cousin sent me some images from a man in Victoria, lovingly called ‘Spanner man’ who is wheelchair bound, but whose hobby is making things with old spanners. They are…
On the weekend I stayed with a cousin of mine in Sydney, who I had not previously seen since a family reunion about 18 or 19 years ago. There were terrible fires burning over much of the state when I flew in on the Thursday, many of them still raging, and this image shows what…
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https://vanessafrance.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/ffa-2013.png?w=200 Front cover **Please note this post dates from 2013, but the anthology is still available on Amazon.** Every year since 2010, the online writing group for expat writers to which I belong – Writers Abroad – has published an anthology. Since we are spread across the globe…
Love … the focus of our hearts the reason forour being the joy in our day a look or a gentle touch Or the pain in our heart so broken when love is lost Philosophy and reason neither can heal the pain only time slows the hurt but that small place in our heart will always…
Today I want to share the following information. A Meeting of the Minds connects people diagnosed with dementia and others who are meeting the challenges of dementia. They have some upcoming webinars that may be on interest to you. They are broadcast from the US so unfortunately are in the middle of the night here in…
Some interesting research… Reblogged from Alzheimer’s Weekly VIDEO + ARTICLE To get a definite diagnosis of Alzheimer’s requires an F18 brain scan, costing $3,000. Can the olfactory nerves’ ability to sense peanut butter offer an alternative Alzheimer’s test? It certainly seems accurate enough, at 1/1000th the cost! GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A dollop of peanut butter…
The first time man walked on the moon, the whole world stopped. In fact, most of us can remember exactly where we were when it happened. Virtually the whole world walked beside him, and the excitement and exhilaration that must have been felt by the astronauts and NASA team I am sure will live(d) with…
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