Progress on Rehabilitation for Dementia

Image source: https://www.monash.edu/medicine/national-centre-for-healthy-ageing/living-labs/Improving-access-to-rehabilitation-for-people-with-dementia The right to rehabilitation of everyone, including people with dementia is one of my pet topics, and anyone who’s followed me here for a while will know I’ve been writing about and campaigning for dementia to be supported as a condition causing disabilities, and for proactive rehabilitation immediately after diagnosis for all…

Mr Boris and peer-to-peer support groups

Someone just reposted this article on Facebook, and mostly because our amazing wonder-cat is Mr Boris is actually featured in the article and this photo, I am posting it here! In the article my Neuro-physiotherapist, Associate Professor (at the time of the article, a PhD Dr) James Mcloughlin said: “We’ve got pretty good evidence to show…

National Dementia Strategies and Guidelines

Australia, and many other countries have until recently had no national guidelines for the post diagnostic support of people with dementia, which I see as more than a failing, but as unethical. However it is encouraging to be able to report that the national clinical guidelines recently drafted went out to the public for comment before they are to be finalised, hopefully by…

Rehabilitation for dementia

There is emerging evidence for non pharmacological interventions for dementia, and evidence for life style changes as a way of preventing a diagnosis of dementia. It is, for me and many others living better with dementia, in spite of the sector telling us to go home and give up, very exciting times! Who knows how many…