Early today I joined a Twitter chat for the release of a book by my good friend Dr. Shibley Rahman @ShibleyRahman titled Essentials of Delirium. It was hosted by another friend in the UK, @DiverseAlz and if you are on twitter, you jcan follow the feed via the hashtags #DeliriumEs and #DiverseAlz To kick off…
About Universal Health Coverage Day I’m still in Sharjah, hence it is still the December 12 here, which each year is Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day. I felt it important and extremely relevant to publish this blog today as UHC is something that has been missing in action for people with dementia and our families…
For many years, I have written about the things that stand out to me as wrong about the way dementia is seen, talked about, or managed for those of us living with it, not only dying from it. One issue that is very prevalent is that many doctors still do not bother to tell some of…
Please join Dr Shibley Rahman and I at our Pre release book launch in London. If numbers become overwhelmingly high, we may need to change the venue, but, we won’t be changing the date! Below is the current format for the afternoon, written by Shibley for the Eventbrite booking site, and which may be subject to change: Event Details Kate…
Dr Shibley Rahman is the first person to have read the manuscript for my book, What the hell happened to my brain?, even before the publishers, and has written a Foreword for it, which I am proud to share with you today… Then you Shibley, your words mean a lot to me. If I could find…
That’s been me the last few months, between completing work for the University of Wollongong, work with Alzheimer’s Australia, and then writing a book. Some of you already have heard via twitter or Facebook I finally submitted my manuscript for my first book about dementia at 2pm last Friday. I felt emotionally and physically drained…
I’ve had a bit to do with illness, and in my experience, it is the stories written by people who are sick, or have been gravely ill, including sick doctors, that are often the very best teachers of knowledge of how to care for sick people. They go beyond the medicalisation of illness and human…
This was sent to me by a dear friend Shibley, whose letter I blogged yesterday, and who obviously realises now that I am spending a lot of time on aeroplanes, how much stress I am under without access to wifi!!!I It is clear the Five Stages of Grief that occur when the aeroplane doesn’t have…
The World Dementia Council meets this week, without anyone living with a diagnosis of dementia, or any family carers, invited to be a part of this event. Yesterday I received an open letter (via email) from Dr Shibley Rahman, personal friend, colleague and academic in dementia from the UK, regarding the ‘World Dementia Council‘. I…
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