“good pleasure” #lastmonthwithmymom 16/07/16
July 17, 2018: One month from today, August 17, 2018, will be the second anniversary…
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i still smell the stench
July 13, 2016, was a scorcher. And when I went to visit Mom in the…
19 ltc human rights abuses i hope quebec will have to pay for
On July 10, 2018, the Quebec Council for the Protection of Patients and co-plaintiff Daniel…
safety pins & call bells
June 23, 2018: I discover one of my mother’s nightgowns buried in a plastic bag…
7 problems with BPSD
The term “behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia” (BPSD) is a harmful artificial construct used…
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…
alzheimer disease didn’t do this. drugs and dementia jail did
I’ve blogged a lot about the negative impacts of the inappropriate use of quetiapine (Seroquel)…
alzheimer society nails language guidelines
The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (OED) contains full entries for 171,476 words in…