“But you don’t look like you have dementia…”
Thanks to my DAI members and family for supporting this webinar. If you haven’t seen it, please watch, listen, and learn.
From rhetoric to reality…
When I was 15 years old, I was elected as a school Captain, and that year wrote an essay titled “Girls and women as leaders: from Rhetoric to Reality.” I had probably read the term ‘Rhetoric to Reality’ somewhere in my readings, as back then I read many books each week for pleasure, as well…
Dementia Awareness Month 2017
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,…
Virtual dementia reality: whose reality is it?
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…
Not for your bucket list!
Ok, I’ve been a bit quieter than usual lately here, but I have had reason to be. On Monday of last week in the early evening, I missed the top step of our stairs at home, pictured here. Although I usually use a walking stick, or hold the hand rails when I am out, often…
“Voices of Dementia”
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.
Birthdays and friendships…
Firstly, happy 50th to one of my new friends Sarah Yeates. We met as I was invited to speak to her organisation, then she offered to become a volunteer for DAI, and now, I would consider we are friends. I was disappointed not to be able to travel to Victoria on the weekend just gone…
No-one is voiceless
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…
