Most years, I am more than frenetic throughout September, ensuring Dementia Alliance International (DAI) has blog content to post for every day of World Alzheimer’s Month also know as Dementia Awareness Month, and blog content to post here every day. For all sorts of reasons, including health, that has not been possible. I have certainly been wondering,…
Ok, so maybe I’ve got it wrong (again or still!), but surely focusing on what people without dementia think dementia might be like and spending vast amounts of money on virtual reality products to show more people without dementia what it is like for us seems a little off base to me. One or two…
This is a Seminar you can attend in person (limited spaces), or attend as a Webinar online, the first Dementia Alliance International event, being co-hosted with the Dementia Advocacy Awareness Team in Brisbane, and supported by BlueCare: Live life your way. Register here… You can also download the flyer below.
It was a day of interesting opportunities and challenges having a film crew in my house (sometime earlier this or last year – I can’t remember as I started writing this blog the day after). The denial bubble we prefer to live in disappeared that day, as we had to focus on what it is…
Firstly, thanks to @ML_Leaver for permission to use this image, and well done for the great hair colour supporting the gay marriage campaign by the team at Rock Retro Scissors in Adelaide! Prior to being diagnosed with dementia, I understood intellectually that some groups in our community were disadvantaged, and being treated unfairly, being discriminated and…
I’m often asked for a various lengths of my bio and this is one version I gave recently: Kate Swaffer is a published academic and author, an international speaker, an activist, and a dementia and aged care consultant; she is a retired nurse, has a Masters of Science in Dementia (Distinction, 2014), and is a…
Over the voting period of my life, I’ve been a political swinger, and the last couple of years, had actually become a political atheist, even joining the Facebook group of that name! In my home state, I have now decided to support Dignity Party SA, and will write occasionally about why I have decided to…
Whilst this blog is not exactly a discussion on the new narrative of dementia, which is my current my #hottopic, this YouTube video sent to me by The Amazing Susan and makes it reasonably clear what I mean… and although it gave me a good laugh, it hits home exactly about what has been annoying…
You may be wondering what I mean by that quote? Well, to start with I can most certainly guarantee no-one with dementia ‘lives well’ or even ‘beyond dementia’ all of the time. For that matter, with or without dementia, not everyone lives well all of the time ! But people with dementia appearing to live…
On May 29 this year, the World Health Organisation’s Global Action Plan on the Public Health Response to Dementia 2017-2025 was unanimously adopted. The following is the announcement made in Geneva: Delegates at the World Health Assembly have reached new agreements on dementia; immunization; refugee and migrant health; substandard and falsified medical products, and the world…
My second dementia book, Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, co authored with my friend and colleague Associate Professor Lee-Fay Low was released recently as an e-book through the Apple iBooks Store which you can find here… The following is the Foreword written by Professor Henry Brodarty: “Dementia is never one person’s illness. Its ripples spread wide, enveloping…
Ok, I think I might be getting back into the swing of more regular blogging. There has certainly been enough ‘material’ around to give me ideas, and in going through my sent emails in a private gmail account, I found a large number of emails I’ve sent to myself on another email for blog topics!…
After watching the movie Hidden Figures on a flight few weeks ago, I took a photo of one of the scenes, as per the image here of a power point slide which is being used in almost all of my presentations now, to highlight the fact we are segregating people with dementia by locking them…
The last few months have been a very difficult time for me; physically, emotionally and also in terms of managing the disabilities of dementia, and due to this it has been very necessary for me to get support to proactively manage the stress. Since February, I have also consciously kept myself much busier than usual to avoid thinking…
Rebel Wilson, a prominent Australian woman who was publicly bullied and shamed with lies about her character by the media (and ‘close friends’) has won her court battle. If only I had the money and energy to take on the media, but alas, not only do I not have the money, doing so would probably…
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