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To blog or not about that topic?
This is probably the daily question for many people around the world, especially those of us who are writing about very personal issues! My private blog gets a real blast, where there is no holding...
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Giving a voice to people with dementia
Since ADI 2012 in London, I have maintained contact with a few people I met from Scotland, many who are members of the Scottish Dementia Working Group. This is the eleventh year they have been...
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A night at the Opera
For almost my whole life I had dreamed of attending an opera at Teatro alla Scala , and in 2011, we were there. It wasn’t an opera, but a modern ballet as it was the only performance available the time...
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Dementia is no longer in the closet!
Here is the link to some of the speeches from the Younger Onset Dementia: A new horizon 2013 summit. I can only have faith the enormous effort, and the toll it took on me, and I am sure the other...
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Heading to Aged Care…
Reverse the roles… this could be Mum visiting me in a Residential Aged Care Facility… (image from Google, not of my mother and I!) Some time ago Kay Bransford asked me this question: “We recently had...
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Dementia and losing control
For the times I want to indulge myself with some R&R, I spend time trawling other blogs, many that I subscribe to. I often read something called the Oracle Report provided on a link from One World...
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Sunday humour…
I love this picture, and the name of the food stall… these boys are hardly fat!! We’re in Adelaide airport waiting for our flight to Kuala Lumpur where we have two whole days to enjoy the sights....
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Kuala Lumpur
We’re in Kuala Lumpur, rested and enjoying two days of recreation and inspiration. It is a busy city, and the Petronas twin towers eerily remind me of the twin towers at The World Trade Centre, but...
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KL to Taipei
We’ve travelled all day from Kuala Lumpur to Taipei. The flight was just over 4 hours, but we were up at 5am as the traffic to the airport was already frantic by 6.30am! Then waiting around until...
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The ‘Like’ button
I really want a Like button on the comments my readers make on my blog posts. These days I simply do not have the mental energy to respond to every single comment, which was once a goal of mine. But...
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I am who I am
It is Day 20 of my National Poetry Writing Month challenge, and this is the haiku I wrote for today; I am who I am. It is the final in a series of three. I’ve been trying to have some sort of social...
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Last day in Taipei
The Memory Walk yesterday hosted by Alzheimer’s Taiwan was nothing short of spectacular. This picture is of some of the Aussies there, including our CEO, Glenn Rees, and Maree McCabe, the CEO of...
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A space for Dementia liberation
lib·er·a·tion (l b -r sh n). n. 1. The act of liberating or the state of being liberated. 2. The act or process of trying to achieve equal rights and status. My computer and internet access are more...
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Dementia as a disAbility
Treating symptoms in the early stages of dementia, as the gateway to supporting disabilities, not managing them in ways that restrict and hinder, and managing emotional changes with counselling and...
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Saturdays poem
My ability to continue to write a blog every day is deteriorating, and so it seemed a sensible idea to set out a plan to ensure I can continue blogging in some way because the value of doing it is...
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Loneliness, dementia and dying
Today is Day 28 of my National Poem Writing Month challenge, and I have managed to write a haiku each day, often using an image to spark my imagination. Todays poem is called Alone and has me thinking...
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Head-spin
Today’s blog is late, and is all about me… me… me, and my dear husband and children too of course. I should have posted something before I went to see my neurologist Dr Casse at lunch time, but as I...
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Dementia and human rights
Since being diagnosed with dementia and joining the global campaign by people with dementia to help improve things such as person centred care, and advocating for what are the most basic of human...
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Ita Buttrose on dementia and human rights
Many times I have written about human rights in aged and dementia care as listed in the related articles below. There are many who agree with me, and then others who think I am too harsh on an industry...
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Saturday poem
Yesterday A week full of head spins On Monday a visit to the neurologist The results of the latest SPECT scan and the neuropsychology tests… Bad news The dementia has progressed clinically My frontal...
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