We are all interrelated and interdependent. No person exists merely as one person. I am the becoming of my mother and future. Our children are our expression. In Afrikaans, the …
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 have slumbered into complacency accepting the status quo. We must wake up. Chances are that we – yes YOU – will grow much older than you thought you would. …
I wonder what would have happened if we considered dementia to be an “altered state”, reframing it as not a syndrome or an illness, but a different way of being …
The new DSM 5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) ensures that there is a diagnosis for every possible aspect of human (mis)behaviour. There seems to be a “gold …
It is interesting to come to a realisation that one has been wrong about something for a very long time – and then have to reframe one’s thinking. It is …
I have often written about vulnerability in the past. Every year at this time it comes to the surface again. I see how older people battle with the expectations we …