by Dementia Friends in Our Community | Jun 20, 2022 | News
Click here to download a PDF copy of our newsletter. How to help your family/friends in each stage of their dementia journey We Need A “hEARt” By: Debbie Keay Prior to diagnosis, my relationships began to change. I have always been prepared to lend a...
by coahamilton | Apr 28, 2022 | News
(As published by the Hamilton Spectator April 28, 2022) Increasingly, employers are realizing that hiring and retaining older workers makes economic sense, Margaret Denton writes. After 18 years Wayne, in his late 40s, was given a buyout offer from his senior...
by coahamilton | Feb 25, 2022 | News
(As published by the Hamilton Spectator February 25, 2022) Samantha Winemaker and Hsien Seow I met Gerry for the first time in his home. Gerry suffered from a non-curable progressive lung condition. For the past year, he was becoming increasingly breathless and was...
by coahamilton | Feb 10, 2022 | News
(As published by the Hamilton Spectator February 10, 2022) Dr. Julie Richardson Co-housing is an international model of self-managed collaborative housing (Czischke, 2018). Weeks (2019) further characterized it as autonomy within private dwellings, with shared...
by Dementia Friends in Our Community | Feb 9, 2022 | News
Living with Alzheimer’s By: Pastor Doug Schweyer On January 20, 2020, I was diagnosed by a doctor as having the beginning stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Right away the doctor insisted on taking my driver’s license away. She said I had the right to protest by...
by coahamilton | Nov 25, 2021 | News
(As published by the Hamilton Spectator November 26, 2021) Dr. Margaret Denton Robert Butler coined the term ageism in 1969. Much like racism or sexism, ageism refers to stereotypes of prejudice and discrimination against people based on a single trait: their age. In...
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