It is time to embrace what we are given, and build a life around it, without fighting against whatever is thrown our way. Build a positive life out of whatever disparate things you are offered. Open your heart and you will thrive. Smell the flowers, walk on the beach or in the park. Spend time…

In this time of COVID-19, when everyone is being asked to keep a distance from each other, and to remain isolated, it is important to note that some groups in our community already experience social isolation and confinement, especially people with dementia, many older people, and those living in nursing homes (residential aged care). As…

A Professor from Scotland,  and a former Scottish government official, June Andrews has been quoted as saying: A coronavirus pandemic would be ‘quite useful’ in killing off hospital bed blockers… She then blamed politicians and a lack of social care services for her truly vile comments. What an inhumane and hurtful thing to think, let alone to…

Today I am simply reposting a blog from a dear friend of mine, which I really love. Thank you Peter Gordon, for being a friend, and a fellow Sparta.

DAI’s “Meeting Of The Minds” Webinar, February 26/27, 2020 Clowning as a medium of promoting the communication and wellbeing of adults living with cognitive impairments Presented by Professor Lenisa Brandão – Wednesday, February 26, 2020 (USA/CA/UK/EU) – Thursday, February 27, 2020 (AU/NZ/JP/SGP/TWN) Please note: this is one event, set in a number of different time…

As I fade from the light… I’m hoping this will help bring me back. A reblog from 2017, and although I’ve been listening to it for decades, it feels like it is time to listen to this daily again. https://kateswaffer.com/2017/09/26/time-thoughts-produce-actions/

Firstly, Happy New Year, and Happy New Decade! I’m not really up to writing original blogs (yet), and decided this year, it might be better to re-post some healty lifestyle – and healthy thinking – articles or videos. I really like this one, and am now also mildly inspired to want to become a Unicorn!…

Unbelievably (well, almost), it is already January 18, 2020, and this is my first forray back into blogging. In truth I hope it is not my last this year, but if it is, so be it. I’m delighted though, that although I have about 300 blogs in my draft folder, a post and video on…

Dementia Alliance International wants to hear ALL of the voices of dementia, and invites you to have your say. This includes, but is not limited to: People with dementia Care partners Families Researchers Policy makers Advocacy organisation staff Health Care Professionals Dementia Alliance International (DAI) wants to hear from you about your experience being involved…

I’m too tired to write a blog, but not so much not to wish everyone a safe, peaceful and hopeful festive season. Adding a collage of photographs from my garden, taken before the devastating heat in South Australia killed most of them. Some of you will have seen them on Facebook, so you can enjoy…

Thanks to social media for reminding me this was happening last week, and although I was unable to watch it live on the day, the link below will take you to it. Professor Rosemary Kayess is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW, and the Vice Chair of the…

Evaluation of the National Framework for Action on Dementia 2015-2019 A consultation process to evaluate the National Framework for Action on Dementia 2015 – 2019 (the Framework) is now open for public response. The Framework guides the development and implementation of actions, plans and policies to reduce the risk of dementia and further improve outcomes…

Interdem is a pan-European network of researchers collaborating in research on and dissemination of Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia aimed at improving the quality of lifeof people with dementia and their supporters, across Europe. I am extremely delighted to have recently been accepted as a member. INTERDEM’S MISSION: To develop pan-European research on Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions…

This quote, via a comment to a recent blog by Steve A, is so very relevant to the last 60+ years of my life! Thanks Steve. By the late Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia a few months before she was assassinated in 2017 by a bomb detonated inside her car: “There is something I should…