take off the blindfolds and #BanBPSD: an open letter to the worldwide dementia community
This is an open letter to members of the dementia community worldwide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear dementia…
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hundreds of studies make me mad as hell
I am frustrated by the fact that what is self-evident to me (and to thousands…
how would we behave if we were locked in? research shows 96% of us would respond the same way many people with dementia do
I remain astonished that the vast majority of geriatricians, gerontologists, neurologists, and other medical geriatrics…
how would “normal” people feel if we did to them what we do to people who live with dementia?
The more research I do, the more proof I have that the behaviours of some…
20 questions to ask when a person living with dementia declines to take her or his medication
Care partners and care staff may become frustrated when someone who lives with dementia declines…
10 ways to reframe “refused medication”
We often use pejorative words to describe that which we don’t like in others. We…
how much is lost in translation?
This is one in a series of vignettes based on the Nursing Home Behaviour Problem Scale…
101 potential causes of behaviour by people living with dementia that institutional care staff may find challenging
While researching my second JAMDA article, I came across a relatively recent paper by Dr.…
the broken lens of BPSD: why we need to rethink the way we label the behaviour of people who live with alzheimer’s disease
In December 2016, my first-ever journal article (Efforts to Reduce Antipsychotic Use in Dementia Care…
10 thought-provoking links on dementia “wandering”
The image above is of my mom heading back to her kitchen from her garden in…