As we sit and watch The one we love in the last stages of dying The hardest thing to say is “It is ok to let go” Let go and move on Find your freedom in the next world I will be here You will be there But you will never be forgotten Take your last breath…
Some time ago, I became friends online with Michael Horvich, and this poem not only moved me to tears, it helped me see the role of the family care partner differently, as if somehow it had softened my edges. I have been reading his poems again today, after learning the news of his partner Gregory’s imminent…
On Day 7 of Dementia Awareness Month this year, I wrote a blog called Dementia and love, and there was a lot of feedback on it. One reader, who is a woman in Nigeria doing amazing things for people with dementia there, made this wonderful suggestion in her comments to the blog yesterday, which I re-shared on Facebook…
Phew!!! It is almost over! I have been blogging twice a day for the whole of World Alzheimer’s Month / Dementia Awareness Month, #DAM2015, and am feeling vaguely jaded… I wonder why?! To say it has been a slog, is an understatement, and I have not been that well either, so it has definitely taken its toll. In…
What can i say… well not that much today, but, I am delighted to report I have been in a teleconference for over an hour discussing a research project around the theory of Prescribed Disengagement™. Woo Bloody Hoo! I really do have a lot more to day on this, but this slide for now says…
As we are getting near the end of this years World Alzheimer’s Month, I have been reflecting on what difference it has made to the lives of people living with dementia. Perhaps though, parts of these campaigns are doing more harm than good? Firstly, for much of the time and in most countries, this month #WAM2015…
Reposting a blog for Day 27 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, #DAM2015 Day 27, on living alone, by a dear friend and colleague, Dr Judy Galvin… I wrote this when I first published it here: [Again] Today I am publishing a guest blog, written by a woman I am honoured to know, and whom I often…
A special friend Dr Peter Gordon, whom we had the absolute pleasure to meet with his wife and daughter (his son as away) in Scotland earlier in the year, writes from the heart and soul of his own humanity. I very much appreciate his intellect, his humour, his depth of character, his willingness to stand up for…
It is Day 25 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I am feeling exhausted from so much blogging here and for Dementia Alliance International! Go figure… Anyway, I thought I’d write a short blog, based on something I read recently written by a young researcher in Queensland who I follow, Siobhan O’Dwyer. I’d suggest the caption…
It is, obviously, still World Alzheimer’s Month 2015, so for Day 24 #DAM2015, and also making my life a little easier this week, I have found another article I wanted to re-blog, written and published on World Alzheimer’s Day this week by a colleague who I have not yet had the pleasure to meet in the UK, Damien…
It is Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, and I had promised a few of my personal and online friends about the outcome of flying to Perth for lunch today, I am proud to announce I won an award today, the Bethanie Medallion, for my service to the dementia and aged care sector. This year, they opened it up…
On Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I wanted to post an old blog of mine, written a couple of years ago, seemed a good one to repost. Obviously many people who follow my blog now, were not doing so then and may not have ventured further than reading blogs from when they started following me.…
For Day 22 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, I am re-blogging a post written on Belledelettres’s Blog by a friend in Scotland, who I had been online friends with and had the pleasure to meet in person in Edinburgh whilst over there this year. It is an important piece… Professor Steven Sabat is one of…
It is World Alzheimer’s Day, 21 September 2015, and all around the world there are events and meetings to celebrate the day, as a way of recognising the work of the organisations who advocate for us, and also where there are many conversations about the issues we face such as isolation and stigma. I still believe, whilst so many…
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