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Kateswaffer.com is committed to meaningful dialogue with a wide range of stakeholders about the critical issues impacting a person living with a diagnosis of dementia and their families, close friends, academics, and health care professionals, as we ll as civil society. In this blog, Kate Swaffer explores the daily challenges of living with and beyond dementia.
Kate Swaffer Blog
1M ago
Chapter Review by Elizabeth Deane McCarthy, Student of Ageing and Public Policy, 2024 “Coming from a background of Mental Health Nursing (Training completed during the COVID pandemic) with a special interest in Dementia, I picked up Ageing of the Oppressed and couldn’t put it down. Kate Swaffer’s chapter ‘About Us Without All Of Us: The ..read more
Kate Swaffer Blog
2M ago
The Global Alliance For The Rights of Older Persons (GAROP) has launched a petition urging governments to support the drafting of a United Nations (UN) convention on the rights of older people. Please consider joining me in supporting GAROP to collect as many signatures as possible. From the GAROP campaign page: “This year is the ..read more
Kate Swaffer Blog
2M ago
As persistently found in past blogs, I don’t (and defintiely no longer) blog regularly! Anyway, whilst searching for one specific to living, not only dying from dementia, I started reading old blogs, and decided to post this one today, from my Living Beyond Dementia site. We are all born with a death sentence, so there ..read more
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5M ago
Deeply ashamed of Australians. Deeply ashamed to be an Australian. No words will ever express the sadness and devastaion I feel for our First Nations Peoples. Almost speechless due to the unbelievable racism, the total lies peddled by so many ‘people’, and the deafening ignorance of the majority ..read more
Kate Swaffer Blog
6M ago
Two webinars on deinstitutionalisation: “Ordinary lives” Todays post is to highlight two important webinars being hosted by the European Network on Independent Living, coming up soon. The United Nations Deinstitutionalisation Guidelines released in 2022 refer to all people with disabilties, which therefore includes people living with dementia. People with dementia are not only locked inside ..read more
Kate Swaffer Blog
6M ago
Recently I read an interesting article titled, “Maslow got it wrong”. Many of us were taught Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs was both a model for self actualisation and creating strong, healthy communities. But this was recently challenged this Eurocentric paradigm and that it would be a different hierarchy if he was a poor Black man ..read more
Kate Swaffer Blog
6M ago
Taking the Pedal Off the Metal: When Should Older Adults Stop Driving? Published by NIH News in Health, October 2021 “… some health conditions common with aging may make it riskier to get behind the wheel. Stiffer joints and weaker muscles can make it harder to steer or brake safely. Eye diseases and some medications ..read more
Kate Swaffer Blog
6M ago
For some, reading my chapter in this book may feel like I’m ripping off a Band-Aid, or worse. It may feel like a betrayal. It may sound ‘angry’. There will definitely be moments of discomfort, denial, and even disbelief that a ‘retired’ dementia self-advocate could, and would dare to say many of the things I’ve ..read more
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8M ago
On behalf of Linda and myself, I’m providing an update on our research project and provide links to our project resources, as well as a recording of the launch event. I was privileged to work as an Associate Investigator on this project with Dr Linda Steele. Our latest post, Launches, Publications, and Advocacy: A Busy Time ..read more