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‘How can we redress and repair violence, abuse and neglect of people living with dementia in residential aged care?’ People living with dementia have been subject to significant harm, including violence, abuse, and neglect in aged care in Australia. Yet, this harm is rarely recognised and redressed. People living with dementia in aged care, as well as care partners and family members, encounter…

Our Rights under threat as we grow old

A COSP13 Side Event I spoke at in 2020 was featured in a United Nations Social Development Network (UNSDN) newsletter in May last year. It was also the FIRST EVER live webcast side event to be held in New York since the start of the corona virus pandemic. Anyway, I found this in my drafts folder from December 2021, so am posting it today as it highlights some of the rights based work I’ve been…

Essentials of Delirium, by Shibley Rahman

Early today I joined a Twitter chat for the release of a book by my good friend Dr. Shibley Rahman @ShibleyRahman titled Essentials of Delirium.

It was hosted by another friend in the UK, @DiverseAlz and if you are on twitter, you jcan follow the feed via the hashtags #DeliriumEs and #DiverseAlz

To kick off this blog, here are a few tweets from this morning, for which I got out of bed at #…

The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled people and their allies are fighting back and we urgently need to understand how, where and what they are doing, what they feel their challenges are and…

UOW Media Release: First Dementia Enabling University

See the Media  Release below from the University of Wollongong,  by Elise Pitt. I am thrilled to be a part of this innovative and exciting project.

 Equipping students with the skills needed to manage dementia 

“Pilot project to help the next generation of professionals tackle the growing issue of dementia in Australia.   

A pilot project to equip the next generation of professionals with the…

Kay Bransford and I have been following each others blogs for a long time. We even started an online conversation The Dementia Dialogue, which was short lived, but valuable at the time. I think this blog is worth reading join full, so follow the link if you are interested in your online safety, and what will happen to you or someone you love’s online accounts when someone dies.

Do you know your…

Pre release book launch in London

Please join Dr Shibley Rahman and I at our Pre release book launch in London. If numbers become overwhelmingly high, we may need to change the venue, but, we won’t be changing the date!

Below is the current format for the afternoon, written by Shibley for the Eventbrite booking site, and which may be subject to change:

Event Details

Kate Swaffer (@KateSwaffer) and Dr Shibley Rahman (@legalaware)…