News from the Kiama Independent
Our Dementia Friendly Community will be featured in this upcoming Webinar that has international reach. By viewing this webinar you can contribute to the cause of all people affected by dementia world wide as well as your own community. For the full article and links click here
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Today we held our monthly social get-together. Our venue was above the Ulladulla harbour. The weather – almost perfect apart from a 90km/hr gale.
It was interesting to look down on a sheltered beach and see the seagulls standing there – being fitted for penguin suits. Despite the slight breeze it was a pleasant time and well worth the trip.
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Dementia Activity Group
Our Next Social Gathering
Tuesday, 9 August 2016 at GreenFields Park – Jervis Bay – Via Vincentia
We will meet in the Rotary Park/picnic area at the end of Sutton St.
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Interview with Kate Swaffer from ABC SA 10/07/2016 ABC News. Also features Nick and the Kiama Gold Standard . Please close your eyes while watching this – as we don’t have copyright permission yet.
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Part 2: Sound and Hearing
Our ability to hear is fundamental to being able to understand those around us and to communicate with others. This is not the whole story though. If we became deaf there are ways of overcoming this loss. But what if our ability not to hear but to filter out the noise around us was impaired or lost?
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Lethe and Memories Lost
We all know of the Greek under-world Hades and the river Styx, but were you aware that the River Styx was one of five rivers of the underworld. They are or were
Lethe, the river of forgetfulness,
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Part 1: Touch and Temperature
Around my time of diagnosis I became aware of some changes in my sense of touch and thermoception – my ability to sense heat. The first thing I noticed was when I dropped a prawn on a hot barbeque plate. I immediately reached out and attempted to pick it up.
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What can you remember of your younger days? Can you remember much from when you were less than 10 or 5 years old? I can “remember” a couple of incidents from before I was 5, but what I remember involved me “seeing” what was happening to me from an observers point of view,
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One of the main challenges a person with Dementia may face relates to how sensory information is interpreted by our unravelling brains. It has been long recognised by people with dementia that the way we experience the world though our senses changes (and continues to change) as our disease progresses.
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