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...
by coahamilton | Oct 26, 2021 | News
(reported in the Hamilton Spectator Oct 21, 2021) Cheryl Fenn The Cambridge English Dictionary defines self-reflection as:”the activity of thinking about your own feelings and behaviour and the reasons that may lie behind them”. The act of self-reflection can...
by coahamilton | Sep 13, 2021 | News
(Reported in the Hamilton Spectator, Sept 13, 2021) Jeanne Mayo I am sure many of us have done more walking since the pandemic began. However, now that restrictions are being lifted, it is important to keep up this good habit, walking to the corner store to pick up a...
by coahamilton | Aug 23, 2021 | News
Attention People Living with Dementia in Hamilton and Haldimand! We are launching a public awareness campaign featuring the faces and stories of ten local individuals living with dementia. Our goal is to challenge stigma and start to shift the way people think about...
