Phew!!! It is almost over! I have been blogging twice a day for the whole of World Alzheimer’s Month / Dementia Awareness Month, #DAM2015, and am feeling vaguely jaded… I wonder why?! To say it has been a slog, is an understatement, and I have not been that well either, so it has definitely taken its toll. In…
As we are getting near the end of this years World Alzheimer’s Month, I have been reflecting on what difference it has made to the lives of people living with dementia. Perhaps though, parts of these campaigns are doing more harm than good? Firstly, for much of the time and in most countries, this month #WAM2015…
A special friend Dr Peter Gordon, whom we had the absolute pleasure to meet with his wife and daughter (his son as away) in Scotland earlier in the year, writes from the heart and soul of his own humanity. I very much appreciate his intellect, his humour, his depth of character, his willingness to stand up for…
It is, obviously, still World Alzheimer’s Month 2015, so for Day 24 #DAM2015, and also making my life a little easier this week, I have found another article I wanted to re-blog, written and published on World Alzheimer’s Day this week by a colleague who I have not yet had the pleasure to meet in the UK, Damien…
It is Day 23 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 #DAM2015, and I had promised a few of my personal and online friends about the outcome of flying to Perth for lunch today, I am proud to announce I won an award today, the Bethanie Medallion, for my service to the dementia and aged care sector. This year, they opened it up…
For Day 2 of Dementia Awareness Month 2015 I am continuing on with the topic of women and dementia, with a version of an article that was co-authored with two colleagues, Dementia Consultant, Michelle Harris and Associate Professor Cassandra Szoeke. Alzheimer’s Disease International also published a report in April found here Women and Dementia – ADI. A summary of this report can be downloaded…
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