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…
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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…
4-minute survey results debunk decades-long notion that BPSDs are symptoms of dementia
Norse mythology contends that thunder and lightening are produced by the bearded god Thor as…
35 things that may cause people with dementia (and you) to become uncooperative, upset, angry, anxious or “aggressive”
Are people who live with dementia sometimes uncooperative, upset, angry or even “aggressive?” Yes. But…
“wandering” is not a symptom of dementia
“Mom won’t sit in that room, she won’t stay there,” I said to the Director…