As always, there are still a few things to do when someones life ends, a few loose ends, a few things you’d wished you’d always done, a few things you wished you’d never done, a few people who wished they had seen you more often, a few people who you wish you had seen more…
I was going to add something to this article from the DPS News rather than simply re-post it, but feel it is all I need on my blog today. Hopefully it will open up the conversation about death and dying, and give many of my readers who are pro-euthanasia something to think about as an alternative. I must…
I’m adding the latest e-newsletter from the Dulwich Centre, highlighting the many events and activities about Narrative Therapy coming to Adelaide next year. I recently did a 5 day introductory Narrative Therapy course with them, and was surprised to find people from all over the world had flown in especially to attend, from countries including…
The Dementia Dialogue Two women discuss the disease, it’s impact on their lives, and share insights on ways to minimize the impact of this diagnosis. Through this conversation, they hope to open up the doors to a deeper understanding of their deeply personal dementia journeys. Kate Swaffer: Diagnosed (and ‘living’) with Younger Onset Dementia Kay Bransford: Assisting…
After reading an article titled Creation and copyright law: the case of 3D printing from The Conversation,it lead me to many other online articles about copyright, and of course I then wondered if the topic was worth of a blog. I have often wondered about copyright in relation to a conversation you might have with someone,…
Todays blog is to help promote a new book Foreign Encounters. Life on La Lune writes stories that always make me feel as if I am visiting France, as if I am there with the writer. Not quite the same as being there, but actually the next best thing, so I encourage you to visit her blog.…
Paul Toohey wrote How to die slowly – and just keep going for The Punch, an online conversation. It’s a lousy title, but a great article; “Some performers get on stage and die. Glen Campbell is in the process of dying, beautifully, on stage. A half-full crowd at New York’s Carnegie Hall saw something special…
We’ve been watching a cooking program called Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry on SBS, where “two fun-loving, food devotees Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo return to Italy together to remember their own pasts and discover how the culinary capital of the world is changing the way it cooks and eats. The two kings of Italian…
This is the title I have given a book I’ve started writing for young children who have a parent with dementia. It sounds a little confronting, especially when I read it!! Why have I chosen this title? I suppose because I often wonder what it will mean to my sons when I forget them? These…
Todays blog is from the Dementia and Elderly Care News: NICE Pathways is an online tool which brings together summaries of selected NICE guidelines, and related information, in a set of interactive topic-based flowcharts. Topic headings are arranged in an alphabetical index. Topics of likely interest (sampled late September 2012) currently include: Delirium Dementia Depression Hip fracture…
Life is not what it used to be, and this evolving world with Mister Larry Dementia (the third of The Three Stooges) is taking its toll!!! I went to a Consumers Alliance SA forum this morning, but only lasted to lunch time, about 3 hours and then came home to rest. So far I’ve not…
The D-word is almost like the C or F words used to be, too upsetting to say out loud. The word dementia is simply too confronting or challenging to talk about or face up to for so many people. Not just the friends and family who don’t know how to cope with someone they love telling them they…
Lately, there are more days when the symptoms of dementia are getting in the way and I am lost for words, and find the writing of my blog more challenging than even a few weeks ago. Will I stop, or give up? I can’t see that happening yet! Whenever the words escape me, I’ll simply I…
One thing we did at home a lot when I was a kid was laugh as my father was a practical joker! Life wasn’t always ‘fun’ as we were relatively poor and it was tough on the farm, but laughing was a way to see past the hard work and numerous battles that we had.…
Fear is a constant companion of most people living with a diagnosis of dementia. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about fear and dementia, and its impact when a person is diagnosed with dementia, or living with the symptoms of dementia. In the article Fear drives shadowing of Alzheimer’s caregivers written by Angela Lunde, it…
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