Best wishes to all the mothers out there… I am thrilled to have heard from my youngest one who is interstate, on route to New Mexico, and visited by the eldest of my two sons! Woo hoo… A great day! Children are of course, what makes Mothers day so special!
I’ve been metaphorically burned at the stake a number of times in my life, and it has almost always been for standing up for truth, standing up to someone, or standing up for something I believe in. I only ever make a real stand about things that I honestly believe matter, even if to begin with I’m…
Following on from my blog yesterday about feeling like a number of people on Facebook were indulging in cyber bullying against me, overnight, it raised to a new level, and I have reported some of them, and also deactivated my Facebook account. They self righteously say online they are not bullying me, but how it…
Lately, yet more ‘people’ online, who asked to be ‘friends’ on Facebook, have been dishing out what I felt was some extremely personal, mean and nasty feedback. I don’t even know if they are a really the people they say they are, or are using pseudonyms. Sadly, I thought we had resolved it privately, but it seems not as there was…
In Australia, mining, other industry, and regional and housing development is slowly destroying the habitat of our Koala. I’ve had friends from the UK and Wales visit me in Adelaide, and I hired a mini bus and took them on a trip to visit our wineries, including a gourmet lunch with a great view at The Lane…
The feedback from the Insight program from many people was overall very positive, but some “were deflated by it, saying it totally bypassed the realities of people with moderate-advanced dementia”, and one family support person said it “showed dementia through rose-tinted glasses”. I’m adding a few snippets of feedback here, without people’s names for their privacy. I would…
At the Perth ADI2015 conference recently, one of my abstracts was accepted as a poster presentation, attached here as a PDF Not Just A Challenging Behaviour_ADI2015_jpg for those of you who have asked for a copy of it or who are interested in downloading it. The image here is a screen shot of the top of the poster, which I…
Saying farewell and giving one final hug to friends (new and old) who respect you, understand you, and whose love is 100% unconditional is hard work. My B.U.B. and I talked about this and I then blogged Wrapped in a cocoon after attending our first ADI conference in 2012; we have talked about it again today as we have…
The last three or four weeks I was doing a short Rethinking Ageing MOOC course at Melbourne University, which I resigned from yesterday, as it is was too time consuming, for no really meaningful outcomes. I gather it was just a way to encourage people to sign up to the University for full degrees, but did not encourage me to…
Soon, I believe, society will need to legislate for changes around inclusion in employment in the same way Aboriginal Australians had to, those people living with other disAbilities have had to, and in the way women have had to fight for equality for many years (sadly, these groups still have to), for any sense of…
It has been a busy couple of days, and after four presentations, and a lot of other things to do I am feeling exhausted. However, we have a conference dinner tonight, which John Sandblom and I are making a supreme effort to attend in part to honour ADI and Glenn Rees in particular for their support…
Whilst it is technically Day 1 of #ADI2015, yesterday at 4pm the first official function was held which was a welcome for people with dementia and their supporters. This conference is perhaps a record breaking event for ADI and Alzheimer,er’s Australia, as there are currently almost 1100 registrations, and approximately 10% of the registered delegates for…
There are many surprises after a diagnosis of dementia, and I was chatting about some of them Monday night with friends from the UK. One of the most common is the ‘friends’ who disappear after they find our we have dementia. A few weeks ago I was interviewed on the telephone by one of the producers of the…
I’m in Perth intending to attend the ADI 2015 conference in Perth, and have been able to meet a few more of my ‘imaginary’ friends! Yes, people I have met on Facebook or twitter, or through my blog, who are real people. Not axe murders, or imaginary. People like Shibley, and Chris, Jayne, and their daughter Kate,…
Today a number of people with dementia are either packing to travel to Perth for the 30th Alzheimer’s Disease International conference, or we are packed and almost on our way. To suggest people with dementia cannot live meaningful lives is a big mistake; the challenge for us is that upon diagnosis, we are usually written off! This…
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