When I was first diagnosed with younger onset dementia, my then 17 year old son in year 12 at school said, “But mum, isn’t that a funny old person’s disease?” Younger onset dementia complicates it further for children and teens, as rather than a grandparent, it is their own parent, who are still meant to…
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…
It was a tough day when I had to tell my school age children I had dementia, something we all thought was a ‘old persons’ disease. They were probably as confused as I was, but because I had been through a lot of other health issues, for them it was more of a roller coaster,…
My blog today was to be about what assets I still have, and the things my advocacy and blog are achieving, but after reading Remember the children in the Australian Ageing Agenda , I felt it too important a topic not to add this as my blog for today. It is not just after the…
A couple of years ago, I was talking to a biographer about my early life, and we had a conversation with Mum. It was short, but interesting, and made me realise a few simple things, such as my mother loved me as much as I love my own children and was proud of me even…
“When an older person dies, a library burns.” (African proverb) I have always had an affinity with people who are much older and much younger than me. This is partly due to the fact I often didn’t feel like I fitted in with people my own age. My musical tastes were not in keeping with my…
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