how many are haunted?
When you tell people that care homes/nursing homes/long-term care facilities ban family members or threaten…
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imagine how much suffering could be spared!
My friend Lorrie B. is an amazing writer, editor, translator and primary care partner to…
3 excerpts from the best article on dementia i have ever read (and a link to the full meal deal)
Sometimes you come across something that captures everything you want to say so brilliantly that…
bullied and banned: rachel’s story
Rachel* sent me the first part of her story at the end of July 2018.…
nobody seems to care
I get comments, emails and letters every day that break my heart. I wish I…
ascendants: awakening to where and whom we came from
Some days I miss my home and my mom more than others. I think about…
somebody stole my mom
Janet Ng was the primary care partner to her mom, Shirley Ann Snow, who died…
being heard will make you think differently
Sonya Barsness defines herself as a “revisionary gerontologist.” A revisionist, she writes in the “about”…
7 words not to use in alzheimer news
Counterintuitively, the words the majority of us most want to hear with respect to Alzheimer…
20 compelling reasons to rethink the way we label and medicalise the behaviour of people who live with dementia #BanBPSD
In June this year, I posted an open letter to the worldwide dementia care community.…