Dancing with Bipolar Podcast with Dawn Sherine and Tracey Maxfield

Vancouver Sun Book Review by Thomas Sandborn

Book review: Escaping the Rabbit Hole tells of B.C. woman’s battle with depression Okanagan Valley nurse Tracey Maxfield tells her tale of recovery from acute depression with this book, based on journals and a blog she created during the worst of her illness. TOM SANDBORN Updated: June 6, 2018 Review

June 7, 2018 No Comments

Reduce Your Dementia Risk

Dementia Aware: what you need to know about reducing dementia risk factors The world has experienced many epidemics in its history. Most were the result of infectious disease e.g. Spanish flu; they came and then went away. The dementia epidemic is not an infectious disease, and we cannot afford to

July 12, 2017 No Comments

Challenging the behavioural paradigm: the right to express yourself by Leah Bisiani MHlthSc., RN1., Dementia Consultant

Reprinted with kind permission Martin Luther King: “ People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other”. Stereotypes based on assumptions become part of how we

June 30, 2018 No Comments

PET scan of the brain for depression

PET scan of the brain for depression A PET scan can compare brain activity during periods of depression (left) with normal brain activity (right). An increase of blue and green colors, along with decreased white and yellow areas, shows decreased brain activity due to depression. Picture of PET Scan used

May 31, 2018 No 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