Resilience, humour and dementia

Resilience refers to an individuals’ capacity to successfully adapt to change and stressful events in healthy and constructive ways. Building resilience is important if we are to strengthen our capacity and our skills in order to reduce emotional and mental health problems, and to cope with crises and illness. It is a skill worth developing…

Parents and expectations

When my youngest son was born, I felt sure I would not have expectations of him that would be burdensome. It was one of my long-term parenting goals. When taking out an insurance policy for him not long after he was born, his father and I had words because I had said I didn’t mind…

A happy death

Someone I have worked with and grown to love this year through my new role as advocate and activist for dementia wrote today… you’ve motivated me to keep trying to make a positive difference in the lives of people living with dementia, especially to be treated as full citizens and human beings throughout their lives. I…