Our first published Letter to the Editor, promoting the continuation of the campaign to ban the false construct known as BPSD (Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia). A few years ago, Professor Dawn Brooker started a group called “GAP in Dementia Care”, which consisted of a large group of academics, dementia professionals and included people…
Please froward this to anyone you know who may be interested in being involved with this study. We have the coaches trained, but are still looking for participants living in Australia who have been diagnosed in the early stages of dementia (any age), within the last six months. Download the dementia-lifestyle-coaching flyer or the image below.…
Most Saturdays (for me), I attend a Brain health ‘motivational’ meeting to help us stay focused on being healthy and staying positive. It is hosted by two of the Board members of Dementia Alliance International., for anyone with dementia, or for someone supporting a person with dementia, worried about their own brain health or about…
At last, many people are on the same page as people with dementia, who have been asking and ultimately begging for rehabilitation and human rights for many years. I’m past caring who takes the credit, receives the kudos for this positive change, as long as it changes!!! Below is a list of just a few…
Having been nicknamed Smiley as a young school girl, I can attest to the power of optimism. I found this quote in an airline magazine recently, but forgot to write down who it comes from! Maybe Meryl Streep, but I’m not 100% sure! Anyway, it resonated with me deeply, as I have been innately optimistic…
I’ve been researching inclusion, accessibility and friendly, along with a number of terms regularly used within the dementia sector. One of the reasons is because of the ‘lightbulb’ moment I had last week, during an email discussion with people from a number of countries, where they no longer use the word dementia. In fact, they have…
This video, which was produced by ADA Australia and their media team, is very relevant to the Seventy First World Health Assembly I am attending this week, and the National Dementia Conference I attended in Canada last week. I thank them for their permission to publish it on my YouTube Channel. (ps a shocking ‘first image’…
