Dementia

“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… Read More »Brain Health

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… Read More »A Moving Move

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… Read More »The Move

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… Read More »The Need for Physical Stimulation

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… Read More »Primary Progressive Aphasia

Come sit here next to me. Somehow this sentence is always comforting. It is an invitation one expects from someone who cares – a friend,… Read More »Come, sit next to me

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… Read More »Anticipatory Grief

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… Read More »Presence

We have slumbered into complacency accepting the status quo. We must wake up. Chances are that we – yes YOU – will grow much older… Read More »Confusion

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… Read More »What if…