dire state of ltc in ontario and across canada is not news
Dementia care and elder care advocates in Canada and around the world will tell you…
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quebec order of nurses accepts ridiculous excuses for physically restraining mom living with dementia
Dementia care and elder care advocates in Canada and around the world will tell you…
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…
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…
10 ways to reframe “refused medication”
We often use pejorative words to describe that which we don’t like in others. We…
10 thought-provoking links on dementia “wandering”
The image above is of my mom heading back to her kitchen from her garden in…
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?…