Food is an important component of brain health, so for my Brain Health Awareness Month series, today I am highlighting a podcast and book I read a couple of years ago, which I found very useful. Dr Lisa Mosconi is a neuroscientist, Professor of Neuroscience & Neurology, certified integrative nutritionist and associate director of the…
More today on strategies to improve brain health, this blog was first published on my Living Beyond Dementia™ website… Anyone who follows this site knows I have been a believer in Bredesen’s Protocol, although I do have some healthy scepticism as well! In saying that, I believe if we don’t view dementia as a chronic disease, which…
Yes, it is still Brain Health Awareness Month, and although this blog is not specific to brain health, the webinar I am highlighting in it is not only a new way to see dementia… but shares what the author believes why it is a crisis, and what we can do about it. You are therefore…
As it is still Brain Health Awareness Month, the focus of my blogs contnues to be on brain health! A colleague I’ve posted about before, and possibly on my (now inactive) Living Beyond Dementia™ website, Dr Dave Jenkins, a general practitioner who has been working in this field for many years now, also with positive…
Over the last decade or so, organisations, large charities, businesses, even the World Health Organisation, as well as many local councils and governments have been saying they support and promote inclusive communities for everyone. Some go as far as saying they provide training for them. In the dementia sector they are referred to as Dementia…
As we move through Brain Health Awareness Month, one of the things so often missing for people who are newly diagnosed, and their families, is HOPE. Hence, I’m also sharing stories of hope this month. The article below is a great read, and whilst I’m not a fan of the term ‘Living well with dementia’…
As part of Brain Health Awareness Month, I wanted to focus most of the blogs here to share strategies, even some recipes and books or articles that support living beyond dementia. In fact, I have a website called Living Beyond Dementia™, although it is now set to private as I am not able to manage…
I’ve become increasingly frustrated that academics, service providers, advocacy organisations, dementia consultants and health care professionals refuse to include in their work, and therefore our services, that dementia is a major cause of disability and dependence globally (WHO). A few others are starting to feel my pain, and Daniela Greenwood today made a comment to…
Published many years ago here, and then on my (no longer active) website, Living Beyond Dementia website: Anyone who follows this site knows I have been a believer in Bredesen’s Protocol, although I do have some healthy scepticism as well! In saying that, I believe if we don’t view dementia as a chronic disease, which…
The image of seeds in a sack by Frans Van Heerden from Pexel that I’ve used here today highlights to me clearly, why diversity should not be mistaken. After attending a meeting last week about improving diversity, and not feeling welcomed or that my opinion was valued, the goal of diversity had, in reality, failed…
Last week, I was pleased to be invited by the University of South Australia Chancellor Pauline Carr to attend the Adelaide International Women’s Day Breakfast, #IWD2021 highlighting women’s leadership this year. The MC was the wonderful Sonya Feldhoff from ABC Radio Adelaide, and guest speakers included Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Leader of the Opposition…
This week has me deeply disturbed, angry, sad and yesterday, even tearful about quite a few things, none of which are personal matters, even though some who read this will already know I do have a few serious personal issues to be worried about at the moment too! But, onto one of the reasons I…
WANDERING the WARDS An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences for People Living with Dementia By Katie Featherstone and Andy Northcott This is an interesting and useful book, based on the wanderings of the authors and staff, NOT the patients with dementia in hospitals! This book is especially timely in light of the release…
Over the last 20 something years, we have had no less than 21 formal reports or inquiries onto the challenges we have been facing in Australia of poor care in aged care, to the point, these facilities should not have the word ‘care’ in their names! Today, this culminates in the final report of the…
A fellow activist and dear friend of mine from from Germany attempted to comment on one of my recent blogs about the lack of services or tangible change for people with dementia and their care partners and/or families. Unfortunately she had trouble getting the comments posted, so sent them privately, and with her permission I’ve…
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