On Day 18 of World Alzheimer’s Awareness Month 2015 #WAM2015, or as I prefer to call it World Dementia Month or Dementia Awareness Month 2015, #DAM2015, I had the pleasure of listening to a geriatrician Dr Jane Tolman present at the Better Practice conference in Launceston: Dementia: how did we get it so wrong?. Some of her…
As I’ve been committed to two blogs a day for Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I’ve been reviewing old writings to see if there was any value in revisiting go of the issues! Some time ago I set up a blog called One Big Rant… where a few friends and I were going to have regular…
It is Day 15 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I feel that it is time we talked about the use of the term “Day” care or “Day” respite. Yes, I know it refers to an adult service, that does not include accommodation overnight, hence the rationale to use these terms, but as far as…
It is Day 14, and almost the middle of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I decided the topic of Dementia and common sense was a worthwhile one to write about, as I believe generally speaking common sense is missing in our care. I often think about common sense, and wonder it has gone these days, not just…
Here’s a feel good story for Dementia Awareness Month Day 11! Perhaps we all need a day of of dementia, especially for a gorgeous Koala story about love. Baby Koala Clings to Mother As She Undergoes Emergency Surgery at Australia Zoo “It’s no surprise a baby wouldn’t want to let go of his mama while she underwent…
As it is Dementia Awareness Month, Day 10, and I am publishing two blogs per day, one here and one for Dementia Alliance International, which is hard work, and coming up with anything to blog on a daily basis is challenging! So feel free to send me images or quotes or ideas, or even by joining the conversation on…
It is Day 9 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, or Alzheimer’s Awareness Month as it is technically called and Trademarked. As Alzheimer’s Disease is simply one of more than 130 types or causes of a dementia, many people with dementia, prefer to call it Dementia Awareness Month; we hope that one day, organisations will do the same.…
For Day 6 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I thought I’d move on a little from the theme of women and dementia, to a broader look at dementia, and the impact on our families. After all, I’d hate to be called sexist! The impact of dementia goes way beyond the person diagnosed, and for women…
Continuing on with my self-imposed theme for week one of Dementia Awareness month 2015, women and dementia, I thought it was important to write about the women who are in caring roles for people with dementia. The research clearly shows the care partners of someone living with dementia are mostly women, and even though women also are diagnosed at a much higher rate than…
This covers some of my angst as a woman, a mother, and a wife, living with younger onset dementia… Watching this devoted son, caring for his mother, is truly gut wrenching.
Today’s blog is more personal and my rambling thoughts about my perspective as a wife and mother, of what it is like living with dementia, and the impact it has on me in those roles, and on my husband and children. When I was first diagnosed, the thought of not being there to see weddings, grandchildren,…
I’ve been following this blog Dementia, Caregiving and Life in General written by the daughter of a woman with Alzheimer’s Disease for a few years now, and her blog today has started me thinking again about forgetfulness. The last line of her blog, Forgotten, in a manner says: “I think I can accept being forgotten. It’s the forgetting I’d rather not…
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Fear Diagnosed with dementia Too often brings us intense fear Worry for our future Our losses Then Loss of reason Inability to think clearly Leaving us immobile Or raging In fight or Flight Or somewhere in between Nightmares and worrying Tempting us to give in To give up Don’t let fear cripple you Find a way, any way…
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