30 tips to help reduce anxiety in dementia care
We all get anxious sometimes. It’s normal. Often it seems that people who live with…
Browsing: Challenges & Solutions
how my mom’s affection got mislabelled “aggression”
My mom had an unflaggingly positive attitude, as you will hear in the video at…
7 simple dementia care partner needs
I asked the care partners in one of the Facebook groups I belong to a…
this is for jane, and maybe for you too
There’s a woman I’ve never met on the other side of the world. Her name…
is what they say about dementia, drugs & behaviour true?
If you are a family member, care partner, care worker, nurse, or even a friend…
‘how you are to me’ touches, teaches & stands out from the crowd
It’s hard to imagine how buckets of love, tenderness, teaching, magic and messages about some…
dementia not the cause in majority of harmful resident-on-resident interactions
“Senior with dementia guilty in death of nursing home resident,” the headline reads. The incidence…
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…
the two biggest challenges to creating positive change in dementia care
Do care workers set out to neglect and abuse elderly people who live with dementia?…
10 ways to get to the bottom of behaviour and problematic situations in dementia care at home and in LTCFs
In spring 2016 I gave a webinar entitled “How to become a better dementia care…