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Words Make Worlds

Here is a collection of my blogs from over the years on ageing, dementia, death, and dying. Feel free to contact me on raynestroebel@mindsmatter.co.za and follow me on Facebook.

 

I see her sitting with all the others in the big room with the high ceiling. Her reclining chair is pushed against the wall, her feet on the footrest, with …

And so 2023 is upon us. Whether we are fatigued, ready, still traumatised, here we go… I cannot help asking myself what would mobilise the world to consider the care …

One of my clients was moved from the hospital to a sub-acute facility the day before yesterday. Broken hip, hip replacement, infection, prosthesis removed, infection carries on. Imagine the trauma …

“Approximately 12% of apparently previously cognitively well patients undergoing anaesthesia and noncardiac surgery will develop symptoms of cognitivedysfunction after their procedure” (Needham et al., 2017, p. 115) POCD (postoperative cognitive …

One of my clients was moved from hospital to a sub-acute facility the day before yesterday. Broken hip, hip replacement, infection, prosthesis removed, infection carries on. Imagine the trauma for …

Brain Health

“Go home and get your affairs in order…” This is the take home message that one of my recent clients got from his neurologist, after she was diagnosed with early …