Thanks to Ita Buttrose, AO, OBE, an Australian journalist, businesswoman, television personality and author, and who was also Australia Of The Year in 2013 for inviting me to be interviewed on The Studio. Ita is a true media Icon, an inspiration for all women of all ages, and a woman who I feel lucky enough to call a…
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It was a privilege to be interviewed on ABC Breakfast by Paul Kelly and Ali More, on 10 January 2017 in Melbourne. Almost better than that, was a family friend Jo Sullivan, a sports journalist who works there, who surprised me by escorting me to the studio (I had forgotten he worked there!!)! This is the interview:…
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The loneliness of my grief is sometimes like my private torment, only visible to my heart and soul… I try desperately to hide my tears, to live inside my ‘denial bubble’, but every now and then the pain escapes. It is then that I realise that my eyes are filled with tears, and the indescribable sadness,…
This is a slightly revised and updated list of tips from the one I published here last week with 17 tips. The day after that I also wrote one called My dementia Trumpet call, explaining a little why I’d put together a list in the first place. Of course, there was some angst from a…
In a blog comment this week about me handing things over to my BUB, I responded with this; ‘I have had to give up a couple of things this week, and hand the responsibility over to Pete.’ I felt physically SICK doing this, and incompetent, and guilty having to do so… even though I know he…
Thanks to social media for reminding me this was happening last week, and although I was unable to watch it live on the day, the link below will take you to it. Professor Rosemary Kayess is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of NSW, and the Vice Chair of the…
Evaluation of the National Framework for Action on Dementia 2015-2019 A consultation process to evaluate the National Framework for Action on Dementia 2015 – 2019 (the Framework) is now open for public response. The Framework guides the development and implementation of actions, plans and policies to reduce the risk of dementia and further improve outcomes…
Interdem is a pan-European network of researchers collaborating in research on and dissemination of Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia aimed at improving the quality of lifeof people with dementia and their supporters, across Europe. I am extremely delighted to have recently been accepted as a member. INTERDEM’S MISSION: To develop pan-European research on Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions…
This quote, via a comment to a recent blog by Steve A, is so very relevant to the last 60+ years of my life! Thanks Steve. By the late Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galicia a few months before she was assassinated in 2017 by a bomb detonated inside her car: “There is something I should…
On this day in 1955, the late Mrs Rosa Parks sits on a white persons seat on a bus. Frankly, there are many days I have felt like Rosa Parks. In all honesty, I regularly feel ashamed to be a white person, as the extent of ‘othering’, and prejudice and racism continues in society today.…
If you haven’t been following me here or on social media for long, you may not know about the #BanBPSD #rethinkingdementia and #ReframingDementia campaign that has been growing in terms of supporters, for a few years now. In September 2018, a number of people including me, Susan Macaulay, Sonya Barsness, Al Power, Daniella Greenwood and…
It’s not too late to register for this DAI Webinar being held tomorrow. I’m just a bit late promoting it here!!! Beyond ‘Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia’ (BPSD) Wednesday, November 27, 2019 (USA/CA/UK/EU) Thursday, November 28, 2019 (AU/NZ/JP/SGP/TWN) Please note: this is one event, set in a number of different time zones. About the Webinar:…
