Author: Tan Susan

Certified Eden Alternative Training 3-5Oct 2017. Don’t miss it!

Certified Eden Alternative Training 3-5Oct 2017. Don’t miss it!

Join my friend, Sally Hopkins (Executive Director / Vice Chair Eden International Board), and her colleague, Marlene Grogan (Dementia Care Consultant), this October for an exciting 3-day journey into the world of person-directed care! What: Certified Eden Associate Training has been changing lives for over twenty years. 

Don’t Write Off People With Dementia

Don’t Write Off People With Dementia

In many countries, including Singapore and the United States, people with dementia are often drugged, physically restrained, neglected, subject to emotional abuse, and at times physical abuse too as the disease progresses. In this World Dementia Month, I like to remember my late-grandparents who had 

4 Ways to Maintain Sanity for Caregivers for Persons With Dementia

4 Ways to Maintain Sanity for Caregivers for Persons With Dementia

In a not-so-nice tone, telling the persons with dementia: “Talk so much. Why do you always talk about the past? The past is over. Why can’t you talk about something recent?” “Why are you so loh-soh (long-winded in hokkien), keep talking about the same thing 

Plan Way in Advance Clearly to Reduce Family Feud like the Lee Saga

Plan Way in Advance Clearly to Reduce Family Feud like the Lee Saga

The unfolding of the Oxley Road saga since mid June 2017 has impacted each and every one of us in some manner. For me, it’s heart-breaking for me to think from PM Lee’s perspective, while he is trying to do his best for our tiny 

Be Happy, Tap on the Many Existing Strengths in a Person living with Dementia

Be Happy, Tap on the Many Existing Strengths in a Person living with Dementia

And so it happened AGAIN! I was at home and called mum, “Hello mummy, are you at home?” “Yes” came the reply on the other side of the phone line. “I’m coming over to your house right now to pass you some stuff that I 

Do I have Dementia?

Do I have Dementia?

It all started when I arranged to meet my mum at Chinatown after her work about 2 years ago. I called her on her mobile phone to confirm the meeting venue when she was walking to the bus-stop near her workplace. After about 1.5 hour,