Most Saturdays (for me), I attend a Brain health ‘motivational’ meeting to help us stay focused on being healthy and staying positive. It is hosted by two of the Board members of Dementia Alliance International., for anyone with dementia, or for someone supporting a person with dementia, worried about their own brain health or about…
Many people with dementia or their families and care partners do significant amounts of unpaid work for their own self advocacy, or for advocacy and many other organisations. DAI as an organisation, and one I am truly proud to be a co-founder of, does this as well. DAI provides speakers for conferences, events and publication launches,…
At last, many people are on the same page as people with dementia, who have been asking and ultimately begging for rehabilitation and human rights for many years. I’m past caring who takes the credit, receives the kudos for this positive change, as long as it changes!!! Below is a list of just a few…
I’ve been researching inclusion, accessibility and friendly, along with a number of terms regularly used within the dementia sector. One of the reasons is because of the ‘lightbulb’ moment I had last week, during an email discussion with people from a number of countries, where they no longer use the word dementia. In fact, they have…
A couple of weeks ago, I spent two days supporting the Canadian government by attending and speaking at their first National Dementia Conference, to help inform the development of their National Dementia Strategy. It was a personally very expensive exercise as reimbursement for costs to attend still pending, but in so many other ways, it…
This video, which was produced by ADA Australia and their media team, is very relevant to the Seventy First World Health Assembly I am attending this week, and the National Dementia Conference I attended in Canada last week. I thank them for their permission to publish it on my YouTube Channel. (ps a shocking ‘first image’…
A few weeks ago I was interviewed for an article in OX Magazine UK. One question from the journalist who interviewed was particularly interested in my thoughts about the renaming of Dementia Awareness Week in the UK, which commences next week, where it is transformed into Dementia Action Week. Below is an excerpt from the…
S4D and Disability Webinar 1: This webinar (1 of 6) was hosted by inFocus in April 2018 and explored what is an inclusive activity in relation to S4D and disability programmes around the world. I thought many of you might also be interested in it. As the dementia community is now very globally focused on CRPD and…
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I’ve written a lot about the benefits of walking, and why we need to stop negatively labelling it as wandering, when it is a person with dementia who is walking! The following infographic is an excellent simple outline of why we should all be walking more, and every day, which I found on Facebook. The…
Jessica Young who is a PhD student at Flinders University and Western University in Canada wrote a review of my first dementia book, and then asked me to respond to her review. The review was published recently in the Dementia Journal, was also published here today, and on her blog, as we have both been granted permission from…
These days, ‘Wally’ can be anywhere, and by Wally, I mean things like my files or a book, or my jewellery! My belongings seem to have developed identities of their own, and have even become quite mobile, as more often, I cannot find my ‘things’ anywhere! Thankfully, my phone can be found by some clever…
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