For the past 26 years, I have been advocating and pontificating about the institutionalisation of older people, the loneliness, helplessness and boredom they experience and the role of Caregivers in …
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.
We drive in an uncomfortable silence to Mossel Bay for the appointment with the physician. At Albertinia my Mom tries to see the two elephants in the game reserve. I …
May 2022 bring new insight and understanding to the world of people living with neurocognitive impairment. And peace to the rest of us… What happens to the physical needs of …
I have not been here for a long time. Stranger times we could not have wished for, and we are affected by it in different ways. Like the experience of …
Come sit here next to me. Somehow this sentence is always comforting. It is an invitation one expects from someone who cares – a friend, a lover, a parent or …
What Is Anticipatory Grief? “Anticipatory grief is de ned as grief that occurs before death (or another great loss) in contrast to grief after death (conventional grief). Rather than death …