This is a flip book of Changes and Challenges.
It is best viewed full screen (click the [ ] icon bottom right hand corner).
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This is a flip book of Changes and Challenges.
It is best viewed full screen (click the [ ] icon bottom right hand corner).
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Reframing The Rhetoric Around Dementia
The following is a link the a presentation prepared for the 2017 Dementia Australia Conference. Reframing The Rhetoric Around Dementia (2017)
The better use and more considered use of language around Dementia can help reduce many of the stigmas around dementia.
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Recently I was asked to address the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Dementia. What follows is the main content of my address.
Before I begin, I ask your indulgence. If my words seem confused or I stumble, its my Semantic Frontotemporal Dementia re-editing the wiki that is my internal lexicon.
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The Building A Dementia Friendly World symposium was held last week, co-organised by Alzheimer’s Society and the WHO Kobe Centre as part of the ADI2017 conference in Kyoto. This was one of several pre-conference symposia and a chance to see a broad global representation of Dementia Friendly initiatives.
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We are constantly presented #1 with sensationalist representations of dementia. We are presented with words and phrases such as the following
The language being used to report on Dementia is the same sensational language used to report on war.
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Artful: Art and Dementia at the Museum Of Contemporary Art
Recently I had the pleasure of undertaking the Artful program at the MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art). This program has two aspects – a research component that is conducted by the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney,
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Author Kate Swaffer on living beyond dementia diagnosis
The following is a link to the Sydney Morning Herald article that appeared today –
Saturday November 26th 2016
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The following is a short video in which I am attempting to use artistic license to show an interpretation of the changes that are occurring in my brain. This short three minute video represents about 100 hours of single frame editing to achieve my animation. Hopefully this will illustrate how amyloid plaques may be degrading the way my neurons behave.
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It has been suggested that some of my posts may not be helping our cause, the recognition of people with dementia as people, but I would suggest if our distractors spent more time listening to Jethro Tull or even Twisted Sister the world would be a better place.
We are all individuals,
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