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Bullying
Tracey Maxfield

What is Cyberbullying? How to Help Children and Teenagers Who are Cyberbullied

Monday October 7, 2019 is #Blue Up Day in recognition of World Bullying Prevention [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-oIm57oHOM[/embedyt] Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, embarrass, or target another person. This can be done by trolling, flaming, harassment, cyberstalking, catfishing, fraping, griefing, outing and roasting. Cyber bullying is dangerous and

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October 7, 2019 20 Comments

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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October 29, 2017 No Comments
Mental Health
Tracey Maxfield

#8: Mental illness and substance abuse in children and teenagers

Substance abuse and mental health problems often seem to go together. Which begs the question, which comes first, the chicken (mental illness) or the egg (substance use)? What we have seen, is that some mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder may contribute to substance use and addiction. Similarly,

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August 5, 2019 19 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

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June 30, 2018 No Comments