Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder (DSED): What It Is, Symptoms, & Treatments By E. Patterson & B. Troy

Dementia and Driving

Dementia Aware: what you need to know about driving when you have dementia Driving is a complex activity involving many regions of the brain working simultaneously. Due to the progression of brain damage, the person with dementia gradually loses the ability to drive safely, and recent studies reveal that

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Problems in Children/Teenagers

Mental health problems and drug use seem to go together…Kids with ADHD, ODD and Conduct Disorder are more likely to use drugs, sniff glue or gasoline. Teens and young adults with poorly managed or misdiagnosed PTSD, Depression, Bulimia, Schizophrenia have an increased risk of abusing alcohol, pain meds, marijuana…. Alert:

May 26, 2019 23 Comments

Engage Educate Empower episode 12 with Lisa Zarcone

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Mental Health

Blog #2: Why is there an increase in mental illness in kids? A review of ACEs and risk factors for mental illness

It seems every time we turn on the television or read the news headlines there is mention of another teenager who died by suicide or committed a crime while under the influence of drugs or was involved in a school shooting. Mental illness and suicide in children and teenagers are

June 24, 2019 29 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

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The 3 E’s of Dementia

Dementia Aware: what you need to know about engaging, enabling and empowering people with dementia The word dementia conjures up so many different thoughts: a loss of memory, a loss of independence, a loss of function; but instead of focusing on the debilitating and despairing features of dementia, what

June 4, 2017 No Comments

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