Why should we need empower ourselves, or help to empower others to speak up? Why don’t more people with dementia speak up? And why do they need to? From the perspective of empowering people in minority or marginalised groups, empowerment needs strong leadership, vision, passion, a ‘never-give-up’ attitude, and a significant strength of character to take the ‘shit’ dished…
I’ve been subscribing to the magazine Management Today for a few months now, and find many of the ideas in their articles could easily be adapted to re-empower people with dementia back to more productive and positive lives. Of course, they apply brilliantly to business, and life in general, but I have found since being diagnosed with dementia…
Prescribed Dis-engagement: what is it? Following diagnosis, my specialists all told me ‘to give up work, give up study, and go home for the time I had left’! I quickly termed this prescribed disengagement, and thankfully I eventually chose to ignore it. Why is it that one day I was studying a double degree, working full…
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