Dementia and human rights

Since being diagnosed with dementia and joining the global campaign by people with dementia to help improve things such as person centred care, and advocating for what are the most basic of human rights for PWD, it fascinates me we still have so far to go in achieving this. Why are people with dementia having to fight so hard to be…

Heading to Aged Care…

Reverse the roles… this could be Mum visiting me in a Residential Aged Care Facility… (image from Google, not of my mother and I!) Some time ago Kay Bransford asked me this question: “We recently had to force my parents into Assisted Living. Everyone around them tried to recommend changes to get them the assistance they needed and…

A dementia carer’s guilt

My husband and I have talked many times about the guilt we feel for having placed his father into residential aged care, and in particular into high care for the last 5 months of his life. The term ‘high care’ is a bit of an anomaly, as many ‘homes’ simply do not offer care for…

Walking on eggshells

Yes, that is what it seems I’ve been doing the last few months, walking on eggshells. The last couple of blogs have really had them cracking too. I’ve been blogging away about the thoughts going through my head, about my fears, about my impression and opinion of what I see around me, and of how…

I wish I was a Lion

My last blog was definitely a hot topic… so much so I am writing a blog-reply today. I think I’m glad to have raised it again, but right now I do wish I was a Lion. They are much braver than me and I fear I will need to be very brave if I continue…

Locked in prison

The human cattle yards for aged care and dementia are playing on my mind again. As many of you know, my father in law has moved into another residential care facility because he now needs high care, one with a brand new private room (rare in high care in SA), in a brand new wing.…