Hello. It has been about a week since I last posted a blog, and I decided to start the new year with one which was posted on the International Day of persons with Disabilities on December 3, 2018, on why employers should employ people with disabilities. So, I’m beginning the year here with a mataphorical…
Over the last few years, the concept of Dementia Villages, Memory Cafes, Dementia specific shopping lanes, etc. has been growing, and worse, the villages are currently being lauded as ‘best practice’, in spite of there being NO evidence for them. Just like the Dementia Friendly Community or Dementia Friends initiatives, they were developed by people…
In the last few weeks, there have been a few articles, blogs or tweets on the impact of others publicly doubting a persons diagnosis of dementia, which I am highlighting here for your weekend reading! One tweet by a professional last week claimed with certainty some people don’t have dementia. Whilst it didn’t name anyone,…
An an article published on October 2, 2018, Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: GPs’ perspective on management highlighted to me on Twitter via Dubhgas Taylor, I want to highlight one of the problems we are facing. It reports on a ‘mixed-methods systematic review by Jennings and colleagues aimed to develop a better understanding of general practitioners’…
It may be a long video, but I recommend viewing t it. There are some tragically stark similarities to the way people with dementia have been ‘Psychiatrized’ primarily, due to BPSD. Yet another nail in the BPSD coffin… and why we must #BanBPSD. BPSD is mostly a ‘Psychiatrization’ of normal human responses to dementia. Like…
It is the final day of World Alzhimers Month 2018, and I decided to end the month by saying I am tired! Go figure… I helped orchestrate 30 blogs on the DAI website, as part of their campaign for this month, #Hello blog/vlog series. Please follow the link and read them, if for no other…
Medicated and Motivated – NOT!!!!!! Questioning the abusive practice of chemical restraint. Guest blog by Leah Bisiani MHLthSc/DipBus/RN.1/Dementia Consultant Republished with permission as part of my Rethinking Dementia: Normal Human Responses series for World Alzheimer’s Month… #BanBPSD “Elder abuse is one of the vilest indicators of ageist discrimination within our current civilization. Whilst the concealed ignominy…
