“Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another dementia” – available now online

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…

The impact of false hope

For my continuing series of World Alzheimer’s Month / Dementia Awareness Month 2016 #WAM2016 #DAM2016 blogs, the post today is about the impact of hearing and reading about possible cures, and failed research. Members of Dementia Alliance International, and the much wider community of people with dementia and our families, are constantly being bombarded with this or that…

Coming soon: “Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or another dementia”

Well… coming, but perhaps not soon enough! We were promised this would be ready for Dementia Awareness Month, and yes, I suppose it will we, but not until the 15th at least , so disappointing not to be able to tell you it is available now when we are four days into the month. Even the websites…

Building capacity in people who are losing capacity

There are those who would say it is simply not possible to build capacity in people who are losing capacity, and yet, there are many people with intellectual disabilities, or changed cognitive capacity including people with dementia, who have learned new things, and who have learned to do things differently  in order to continue to function. It…

Contrasting models of support (trying again!)

As promised on Monday  I am adding these two pathways again, in a different format, and in the hope they are able to be read. The first is the Medical model of ‘care’ currently still offered as the post diagnostic pathway to people with dementia, which simply supports Prescribed Disengagement® alongside the following is the Social/disAbility pathway…