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Caring for & Living with Dementia: Tips & Resources
Strategies for Living with Dementia
9 Simple Active Strategies for Adding MEANINGS to Your Life
Over the past two years, I have been conducting increasingly more classes to get participants to be more active and to exercise more regularly. From my participants, I learnt that many people are not physically active enough as they felt that there are many barriers …
Mindfulness To Guard Against Mind-Full Syndrome
In my previous article, I wrote about brain scans done in a lot of studies to evaluate the positive effects from regular mindfulness practice had found that a few parts of the brain including the hippocampus actually thicken with regular mindfulness practice. And the hippocampus plays important roles in learning …
Add MEANINGS to Life Everyday
Last month, I wrote about how one can come to terms with the diagnosis of dementia. 1 week ago, I was asked to present on ways to keep one’s brain active and ways to prevent dementia. And for that presentation, I created this acronym: MEANINGS. I …
Coming to Terms with Dementia: What Would Buddha Do?
One of my students kept asked me this question several times after going through the workshop in which he experienced dementia and learn about dementia: “Why isn’t there somebody to teach people what to with dementia?” I didn’t quite understood him at first. I asked …
‘Challenging Behaviours’ are Unmet Needs in Action
Do you remember the story of my mummy’s struggle with my late-grandfather’s refusal to shower for days which I shared some time back? For those who have not read that story, let me recap for you. My late grandfather had dementia. Once my mum called me, …