Mourning and dementia

Last week I attended a meeting of the Coromandel Valley Quilters club, supporting someone from the The Bereaved Through Suicide Support Group Inc. as they were one of six recipients of $500 being donated by the quilters club. It was with some shock when another group, Tender Loving Carers (a new group set up in South…

Remember the children

My blog today was to be about what assets I still have, and the things my advocacy and blog are achieving, but after reading Remember the children in the Australian Ageing  Agenda , I felt it too important a topic not to add this as my blog for today. It is not just after the…

Aged care vs Palliative care

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” Mahatma Gandhi As I speak out about improving the services for, and care of people in aged care, and people living with dementia, I am constantly scratching my head wondering why we haven’t got it right…