September 8, 2020
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“Grief is itself a medicine.” ~William Cowper Grief as defined by Merriam-Webster is: (a) a deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement (b) a cause of such suffering. But the truth is, it is so much more than this. Grief and bereavement have been studied throughout the years
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
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvAOJVmk3WE[/embedyt] September 8 to September 14, 2019 is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Tuesday September 10 is recognised as World Suicide Prevention Day Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide. This means that in the next hour, 90 people will have died by suicide, at the end of today,