Exercising Keeps Your Mind Strong – Here’s Why “Why Is This Important? Because this is the first comprehensive study to show environmental factors can affect dementia. Long Story Short A report by British health charity Age UK has stated that some basic lifestyle changes can help prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, something which has…
Saul Alinsky wrote: “We learn, when we respect the dignity of the people, that they cannot be denied the elementary right to participate fully in the solutions to their own problems. Self-respect arises only out of people who play an active role in solving their own crises and who are not helpless, passive, puppet-like recipients…
Sadly, I have yet another horror story of our acute sector in Australia, and their mistreatment of people with dementia. Obviously I had hoped the experiences I wrote of three years ago had not continued, and that care for this very marginalised group might have improved. But alas, it seems not. When I wrote about…
It was a long and rather tedious day last Friday. I attended a SA Health “Transforming Health Summit”, and not only was there nothing about dementia, when I and others brought it up, people like the Honourable Jack Snelling M.P. (Minister for Health, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse) and the appointed Clinical Ambassador…
A sense of loneliness So deep It takes my breath away Reminding me of those departed Lingering inside my heart Lost to the stigma of dementia Tales of despair Whisperings of days gone by Deteriorating abilities Sadness sitting just inside my soul Yearning for my loss of self Footnote: Through this blog, and other social…
Day 24: Dementia Awareness Month 2014 The article ‘My mum has dementia’ by Annette Dasey was published on news.com.au on September 14, and I am highlighting it following the media release from yesterday about the impact of younger onset dementia on our children. Please follow the link and read the whole story. IN 2012,…
Day 23: Dementia Awareness Month 2014 Media Release, 3 September 2014 Diagnosis of younger onset dementia has life changing impact on families Dementia is not something you associate with young people yet it is estimated that there are more than 24,400 Australians living with younger onset dementia. A diagnosis of younger onset dementia is not…
Life is full of choices. Much of the time, they end up being defined by whether you have chosen to react or respond negatively or positively to something. We often ‘react’ instantly, forgetting to think about te issues in depth before responding, especially in conversations. I read a blog this morning written by someone I…
“1,000 Posts! Congratulations on writing 1,000 total posts on Creating life with words: Inspiration, love and truth.” Last week, as per my husband’s expertise and infinite knowledge of blogging and bloggers, I became a serious blogger as I reached 1000 blogs!!! I could hardly believe it and I didn’t realise it until afterwards, and with…
Recently I blogged about 17 things not to say or do to people with dementia, and have revised and reconsidered this list, to be published again soon. However I thought today I’d publish the list of 10 Dignity in Dementia Care Principles in use in SA Health. Dignity in Care was first launched in Australia in…
This is the trumpet call of a friend and fellow member of Dementia Alliance International, Mary_Beth Wighton, which is almost like a digital poem, the second reason for posting today… enjoy, and if you have dementia and are not already, please think about becoming an advocate.
In an interview for theguardian.com Fiona McFarlane said: ‘I wanted to explore dementia from the inside’. This is the article, as published recently under Australian CUlture Blog in the Guardian. “Shortlisted for a Miles Franklin award and writer in residence at Sydney Writers’ festival, the author says she is living the literary dream. At 36,…
On Friday I posted an honest Easter reflection, in part about losing my Christian faith. I have already been judged by some people I know, a couple to the point of saying they admire the work I do, but have now lost respect for me because I don’t believe in ‘their God’, and I quote,…
Firstly, best wishes to everyone for Easter. It is a strange phenomenon that Christians, celebrate the story of a truly horrific torture of Jesus, and then His resurrection. In reality, I’ve lost my way, and have no idea if I believe in God anymore. Even non Christians get involved in the celebrations, via the commercialisation…
Kate Legge wrote a piece in The Australian, March 10-11 called ‘How do you shrink a big life into a small suitcase?‘ It was around the same time I had an article published in the Australian Journal of Dementia Care called ‘Human rights in residential aged care: a consumer’s perspective‘. The two articles look at…
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