alzheimer society nails language guidelines
The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) contains full entries for 171,476 words in…
Browsing: BPSD
7 snippets from a story about unborn baby bunnies that is scarily similar to the myth of bpsd
For about 80 years, it was accepted as scientific fact that rabbits were first domesticated…
20 questions to ask when a care partner or resident walks around at night
My first few months as the full-time care partner to my mom while she was…
elderly man with dementia dies in quebec ltcf from inappropriately prescribed antipsychotic drugs
Christin Belley’s 89-year-old father Jean-Pierre, who lived with Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia, was still…
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…
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…
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…
10 pieces of wisdom from dr. allen power & dementia beyond disease
In mid-2014, I devoured Dr. Allen Power’s first book Dementia Beyond Drugs: Changing the Culture…
is your dementia glass half empty or half full?
“This time next year she won’t remember me,” I thought in the autumn of 2011…