A special friend Dr Peter Gordon, whom we had the absolute pleasure to meet with his wife and daughter (his son as away) in Scotland earlier in the year, writes from the heart and soul of his own humanity. I very much appreciate his intellect, his humour, his depth of character, his willingness to stand up for…
It is Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, and I had promised a few of my personal and online friends about the outcome of flying to Perth for lunch today, I am proud to announce I won an award today, the Bethanie Medallion, for my service to the dementia and aged care sector. This year, they opened it up…
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 Day 22 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, I am re-blogging a post written on Belledelettres’s Blog by a friend in Scotland, who I had been online friends with and had the pleasure to meet in person in Edinburgh whilst over there this year. It is an important piece… Professor Steven Sabat is one of…
On Day 18 of World Alzheimer’s Awareness Month 2015 #WAM2015, or as I prefer to call it World Dementia Month or Dementia Awareness Month 2015, #DAM2015, I had the pleasure of listening to a geriatrician Dr Jane Tolman present at the Better Practice conference in Launceston: Dementia: how did we get it so wrong?. Some of her…
For Day 6 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015, I thought I’d move on a little from the theme of women and dementia, to a broader look at dementia, and the impact on our families. After all, I’d hate to be called sexist! The impact of dementia goes way beyond the person diagnosed, and for women…
Today’s blog is more personal and my rambling thoughts about my perspective as a wife and mother, of what it is like living with dementia, and the impact it has on me in those roles, and on my husband and children. When I was first diagnosed, the thought of not being there to see weddings, grandchildren,…
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