Reprinted with kind permission “Sundowning” is an area I feel is a distorted viewpoint and yet another “label” for cognitively aware people to use, when they misunderstand and misrepresent people living with dementia. Personally, my belief is there is no such thing as “sundowning”. That it is yet another term
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
HelloCare Magazine (Australia) Article 3, June 29, 2018 https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhellocaremail.com.au%2Fget-know-person-disease-secondary%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C477c01dc7be1438a9ae708d5dd7a953e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636658440934205523&sdata=QHZW%2BaEIYwSCWr8EijsVIYmGARNDnzrvJYWa44%2F52l8%3D&reserved=0
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g6NfpQ451s[/embedyt] November is National Native American Heritage Month in the USA and I thought this is a good opportunity to not only talk about mental illness and suicide in Native American and Alaskan Natives children and teenagers, but also to highlight mental illness and suicide in other indigenous populations
In Blog #1 and #2 of this series, I talked about mental health, how the brain works, and the effect our current environment and how ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) affects brain growth and development and increases the likelihood of developing a mental illness. We know that 50 percent of
