The ugly parts of dementia

When I was searching for an image for this blog, I found this ‘time out’ image, which was appropriate as I’ve needed some this week. Of course I found various pictures of children who had been naughty and made to go into time out, but I chose this image instead, as it better reflects how…

Dementia friendly… or not?

Last week I attended and spoke briefly at an event, where the guest speaker Rachael Litherland was an invited expert from the UK, being funded to tour Australia and discuss the work of dementia friendly comunities in the UK over the last 10 years. She highlighted the work on dementia friendly communities that has been…