According to Wikipedia, fear is a distressing negative sensation induced by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. In short, fear is the ability to recognise danger leading to an urge to confront it or flee from it (also…
In my first volume of poetry, Love, Life, Loss, A Roller-coaster of Poetry, I wrote a poem called disAbled, which also appears on my poetry page of this website. A new friend I met at ADI in London this year living with dementia asked if she could read it out to a group she meets with in…
This last couple of weeks seems to have been getting information about the meaning of Well-ness, and how it applies to people in aged and dementia care, a worthy topic for my blog. The three sets of questions below come directly from the PDF in the Dementia Care News blog, Measuring Wellbeing: Practitioners’ Guide (NEF).…
At a focus group with a group of dementia consumers today, Bingo was mentioned as an activity used in aged and dementia care. The room was full of people who themselves may one day be facing aged or dementia care, myself included. Although it wasn’t the topic we were there to discuss, I decided to…
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