A long week behind me Filled with mixed emotions Unexpected news A girlfriend with late stage cancer Then an incredible high of Meeting Roly Sussex, and Sharing a program in Brisbane With the wonderful Mick Carmody More funerals Then the news of Margot’s death Very little blogging Even less DAI Book edits very overdue, A PhD proposal to…
If you search in googleimages.com for an image to match the term ‘Day Care’ you mostly only find images for children day care services and centres, as per this image I have added today! I wrote the following for a friend and colleague, to read out at a conference who is attending soon with an audience…
Just for something different (!?), I am going to once again discuss the topic of being a care partner of a person with dementia, of which there are more women than men, and the reality that the person living with someone who is diagnosed with dementia, is not living with dementia, but instead they are living with someone diagnosed…
This was brought recently to my attention via social media, either Facebook or Twitter, although I can’t remember which one. I had not heard of the word, or did not remember it, which is not the issue here, but the meaning of the word has been playing with my heart-strings ever since. Initially it brought…
As we sit and watch The one we love in the last stages of dying The hardest thing to say is “It is ok to let go” Let go and move on Find your freedom in the next world I will be here You will be there But you will never be forgotten Take your last breath…
On Day 7 of Dementia Awareness Month this year, I wrote a blog called Dementia and love, and there was a lot of feedback on it. One reader, who is a woman in Nigeria doing amazing things for people with dementia there, made this wonderful suggestion in her comments to the blog yesterday, which I re-shared on Facebook…
What can i say… well not that much today, but, I am delighted to report I have been in a teleconference for over an hour discussing a research project around the theory of Prescribed Disengagement™. Woo Bloody Hoo! I really do have a lot more to day on this, but this slide for now says…
As we are getting near the end of this years World Alzheimer’s Month, I have been reflecting on what difference it has made to the lives of people living with dementia. Perhaps though, parts of these campaigns are doing more harm than good? Firstly, for much of the time and in most countries, this month #WAM2015…
On Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I wanted to post an old blog of mine, written a couple of years ago, seemed a good one to repost. Obviously many people who follow my blog now, were not doing so then and may not have ventured further than reading blogs from when they started following me.…
For Dementia Awareness Month 2015, (otherwise Trademarked as World Alzheimer’s Month), and realising I have gone off track of the theme I was going to follow for #DAM2015, which was to be women and dementia, men and dementia, then families and dementia, children and dementia and so on, I thought I’d come back to this theme,…
It is Day 14, and almost the middle of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, and I decided the topic of Dementia and common sense was a worthwhile one to write about, as I believe generally speaking common sense is missing in our care. I often think about common sense, and wonder it has gone these days, not just…
It seems to me, that the media is either being ‘fed’ research a certain way via media releases from researchers, trying to highlight their own research, or they simply choose to misrepresent issues and research presenting them as ’causes’ or ‘cures’ of diseases such as dementia for the purpose of readership and sales. It is often scurrilous sensationalism, and…
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