This “festive” season was certainly not as festive as we usually know it. There seems to be a veil of uncertainty and fear suspended over all our usual frivolity. As …
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.
Russell Brand interviews Carlo Rovelli (theoretical physicist) on the nature of reality. It seems apt for our understanding of, amongst other things, people living with dementia. In terms of quantum …
According to Stina Hanson, ‘we come into being as a response to a call from the other’. I find this is an incredibly beautiful quote. It is in our engagement …
Older people and Well-being “A large body of empirical and theoretical research, however, supports the idea that negative changes increase in later adulthood and old age, as everyday experiences and …
In the process of exploring the narratives of older people living in Hangberg (a marginalised shing community above the harbour in Hout Bay, Cape Town) I am struck by something …
Defiant resilience “The life span approach proceeds from the understanding that development at all ages (including old age) is a ratio of gains and losses” Old age (whatever that means …