Following the free Dementia Rehabilitiation e-Course I was involved ih developing, now being hosted by Dementia Training Australia, it is great to share another step towards supporting people with dementia to remain active and engaged in their (our) communities. It is even more important to people with dementia and their care partners and families who…
I’m pleased to share that the Dementia Justice website, which had to be closed down in October, is now being hosted with its own page on my personal website. This research project is the one of two which I am currently the most proud to have been involved in, as well as working alongside Professor…
Over the years, I’ve been a vocal campaigner to ban the paradigm known as the Behavioural and Psyhcological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD). This harmful labelling of normal human responses to a diagnosis of dementia, or to poor care, harm and neglect, was developed with funding from J&J who has had many legal challenges over misleading…
Introduction to Dementia Rehabilitation: This free course aims to raise awareness, change attitudes, and present evidence for the need and provision of rehabilitation as part of post diagnostic care for all people with dementia and their care partners. It is suitable for a mixed audience, including health care professionals, peopel living with dementia, care partners…
Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s by Charles Miller, published by Icon Books, Feb 2025. About The Book: An Economist Best Book of 2025 So Far “For readers of Empire of Pain and Dopesick, a “gripping story of medical groupthink and warped incentives” (The Economist) that follows how Alzheimer’s disease treatment has been set back by…
A couple of months ago I met up with Dr Diana Collett, a friend and colleague, and someone I first met as an undergraduate student at the University of South Australia when accessing her services. Since we had connected, she has co-founded an initiative on climate change, called The Climate Coaching Alliance. It is an…
For those who are new to my website or long time readers, todays blog is about a survey which is part of the ADEPT study. It emerged from a group of people keen to improve environmental design to ensure accessibility for ALL people with dementia. Many are members of the Dementia Alliance International Environmental Design Special…
I’m sharing some exciting news about the next chapter in the life of the Dignity Manifesto of Design for People Living with Dementia. Since its inception, the Manifesto has sought to set out clear values and design principles that uphold the dignity, autonomy, and wellbeing of people living with dementia. It grew from the foundations…
Image source: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/national-centre-for-healthy-ageing/living-labs/Improving-access-to-rehabilitation-for-people-with-dementia The right to rehabilitation of everyone, including people with dementia is one of my pet topics, and anyone who’s followed me here for a while will know I’ve been writing about and campaigning for dementia to be supported as a condition causing disabilities, and for proactive rehabilitation immediately after diagnosis for all…
Dementia is not in itself a disability, but reframing the symptoms of dementia as disabilities aligns directly with a rights-based approach under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), rather than just treating them as biomedical “deficits”. This graphic provides a visual example of some of the disabilities people acquire as a result of…
Registration for the Disabled People’s Creative Writing symposium on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th August, is now available! This free, online symposium aims to highlight the myriad ways in which disability engenders creative writing in eight sessions across two days. With a focus on intersectionality, the presenters will explore the influence of impairment and disablement on…
I’m forever hopeful of positive change… For so many things related to a dementia diagnosis, dementia care, disability support, respecful language, and ageing in general, as well as the many rights violations people with dementia continue to experience. This includes disbanding the harmful labels currently still being used to descibe people with dementia, or our…
In the world of mental illness, and of dementia, people are systematically locked up i.e. physically restrained, and chemically restrained. If you have dementia, even worse, you are segregated from all others, remembering of course, the only others this is done to without consent, are convicted criminals. Check out not only the video, but the…
I’ve thought often about the truth of this particular quote, which ironically, although most often attributed to Mark Twain, is probably not by him. In a funny twist of humour, it also highlights how accurate the quote is! Em T. Wytte blogs about writing, and I found the image used, and a blog about the…
Recently, I started to become interested in the work of a psychologist, Dr Roger McFillin, and after listening to multiple Radically Genuine podcasts and interviews and reading his posts on social media, decided to join the Conscious Clinician Collective. This initiative is open to everyone, not only clinicians. That is, anyone with an interest in…
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