Instead of the fear, stigma and shame many associate with the phenomenon of dementia, reveal the resilience, human connection and wellbeing that is available to us all.
By Sandy Sabersky, co-founder of Elderwise, and Ruth Neuwald Falcon, co-authors of The Elderwise Way: A Different Approach to Life with Dementia. This blog starts with Sandy’s experience, what she has learned from her many years of work with people who have dementia, and introduces the foundation of Elderwise Spirit-Centered Care. Paintings by Elderwise program participants.
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Reflective journals while temporarily living in an institutional dementia care setting.
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Reflective journals while temporarily living in an institutional dementia care setting.
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In order for me to gain some firsthand experience of what it is like to live in an institutional dementia care setting, I arranged with the administration of a nursing home in the area for me to be admitted as a “resident” without the care staff knowing that I did not have dementia. These are some reflections on my five day stay.
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How can we continue to offer enjoyable interactive programs for people living with dementia in a time of pandemic and isolation? In this essay, Susan McFadden describes how a nonprofit in Wisconsin is staying connected with people who formerly attended memory cafes in person and who used to enjoy daylong outings together.
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“There is just such a silence. If you turn on the TV or the radio it just forces more of a silence.” Reflects Mary Lee Fulkerson, an expert on the lived experience of Dementia in Nevada, about her experience with the pandemic. “I don’t interact with that well. I get depressed watching the news so […]
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Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is an international group of dementia activists and allies – health professionals, people living with dementia (young and old), carers/care partners, family and community members, advocates, artists, academics, policy makers and others – who share a diverse and humanizing vision of care and support that promotes inclusion, relationality, creativity, […]
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How improvisation gives us a powerful tool for moving from “How things should be” to “What can we create given what exists?” – and the most humanizing shot at relating to the strangeness, the fluidity and the uncertainty of dementia (and pandemic life) in ways that promote intimacy and growth rather than frustration and humiliation.
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