A New Dawn Podcast with Dawn and Tracey

September 22, 2019

Tracey Maxfield

Season 1: Episode 53 – Tracey Maxfield Discusses her battle with depression, how she fell into “The Rabbit Hole,” and her platform and advocacy.

September 22, 2019

Tracey Maxfield is doing all the things I dream about, she wrote a book about coming out of the Rabbit Hole of depression and is a speaker in schools across the globe. Her philosophy meshes with mine, help teach kids how to cope with the stresses of life, manage anxiety, emotions and how to breathe properly. Our school children are stressed out and you can gain a deeper understanding of her thoughts, listen to the podcast.

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Medicinal Cannabis: A Therapeutic Alternative for Management of Chronic Pain in Older Australians by Leah Bisiani MHlthSc., Dip Bus., RN1., Dementia Consultant

DISCLAIMER: This article is not advocating medicating people living with dementia with cannabis, but is only considering the utilisation of medicinal cannabis for chronic intractable pain in our older population. Pain has been described as a fundamental and universal human experience, and thus access to effective pain relief should be

June 29, 2018 No Comments

Mental Health

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children and Teenagers

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j64wGC3wiWQ[/embedyt] When we hear the word PTSD, images of soldiers and veterans spring to mind. For decades, people associated post traumatic stress disorder with terrifying events that occurred during a war, in fact, until the 1980’s this stress disorder was known as ‘shell shock’ or ‘battle fatigue.’ The reality

November 4, 2019 38 Comments

TV/Radio/Podcast Interviews

Hearts Unleashed with Abigail Gazda and Tracey Maxfield

September 28, 2019 23 Comments

Physical restraints used for nearly half of hospital patients with dementia By Caroline Egan.

Nearly half of hospital patients diagnosed with dementia were physically restrained to prevent them from harming themselves, according to a new study.Hospital patients in Japan who are living with dementia were physically restrained to prevent them from trying to get out of bed, trying to pull out catheters, and to prevent

December 1, 2018 No Comments

Mental Health

Blog #7: Mental illness and bullying in children and teenagers

Kids have been bullying each other for generations. Bullying is defined as the physical, verbal, relational, and/or or psychological attacks or intimidation against a person who cannot properly defend him/herself. It includes two key components: repeated harmful acts and an imbalance of power.

July 29, 2019 30 Comments

Medicated and Motivated – NOT!!!!!! Questioning the abusive practice of chemical restraint by Leah Bisiani MHLthSc., RN1., Dementia Consultant

Reprinted with kind permission Elder abuse is one of the vilest indicators of ageist discrimination within our current civilization. Whilst the concealed ignominy of elder abuse has grown in visibility, it remains an area that is poorly examined and rarely resolved. Chemical restraint, one of the manifestations of elder abuse

June 30, 2018 No Comments