Timdementiachampion

13/07/2025

Treating BPSD’s involves a combination of interventions, including both non-pharmacological and pharmacological, and non-pharmacological is always the priority and must be used first. This episode is the last in this mini-series on BPSD. Please enjoy, Tim

The management of BPSD often involves a combination of interventions including both non-pharmacological and pharmacological, and non-pharmacological is always the priority and must be used first. There is a significant list of non-pharmacological ...

09/07/2025

Attention to all Dementia Passionate people who desires to make a real positive difference to the lives of those living with dementia and their families. Here is you chance. YOD Reflections P/L (Younger Onset Dementia) currently has a Subcontracting Support Co-ordination position available based in the Sydney Inner West / Sydney Hills Region. This is an excellent role and organisation. I should know, I work with them. Details below.

YOD Reflections are an NDIS Registered and committed to providing specific, quality support co-ordination to people with Younger Onset Dementia.

09/06/2025

Dementia and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Part 2 of a 3-part miniseries on CTE. Today we will discuss the signs and symptoms and look at in more detail the cause of CTE. Please enjoy, Tim

While CTE may be a novel neurodegenerative disease it does have a well recorded history. CTE is well known about and is a neurodegenerative disease which is linked to repeated head trauma. Hall mark symptoms often include changes in behaviour...

01/06/2025

Press Release - CTE Action Week …. ConneCTErs is pleased to announce the "TACKLECTE" campaign during CTE Action Week to raise awareness and support for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. This crucial week aims to improve support for those living with and caring for a person with CTE, promote prevention strategies, increase vital funding, and bolster essential research efforts. This is the Inaugural CTE Action Week.

We provide public, community and business dementia education that builds awareness of dementia, provides practical solution to assist people with dementia and carers to live full lives in their community, and seek to de-stigmatize dementia more broadly.

01/06/2025

I believe CTE is the Asbestosis of the 21st century. - CTE is a big subject to cover so we will discuss CTE over 3 separate podcasts. We will discuss probable causes, the disease signs and symptoms, diagnosis and identification, and the potential impact within Australia for current and future grassroots sporting and recreational activities. This is the first of 3 podcasts on CTE.

Concussion and traumatic brain injury in contact sports and their links to dementia have again been in the media spotlight. Many retired professional athletes have recently revealed that they have been diagnosed with probable Chronic Traumati...

25/05/2025

Urinary Tract Infection and Dementia. Urinary Tract Infections or UTI’s in dementia are often overlooked, miss-understood, poorly treated, and symptoms are regularly mistaken as part of the progression of dementia. Today we will discuss how UTI’s impact your loved one with dementia and how they can be treated. Cheers, Tim

In the very first series of Dementia Demystified there is an episode called ‘The 3 D’s of confusion - Dementia, Delirium and Depression’. There you discovered that your loved one with dementia could experience a sudden and acute state of confusion...

18/05/2025

More ways to make you home dementia friendly… By making some simple changes to their home supports people living with dementia to feel independence and comfortability and allow them to continue to enjoy their home. Please enjoy. Tim

It’s important to remember, for a person living with dementia, living at home can give them a sense of independence, a feeling of safety and comfortability, and allow them to continue to enjoy their homeBy making some changes to their home, many t...

15/05/2025

Series 4 of the podcast Dementia Demystified starts 19th May 2025 6.00am Sydney Australia time. You can listen to Dementia Demystified on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Enjoy… Tim

22/04/2025

This is hard to watch, be it needs to be seen.... CTE is here.

Former Newcastle Knights board member and St George second rower, is now needing one-on-one care. But sometimes even that is not enough.Read the full story:h...

06/04/2025

Every person with dementia NEEDS Rehabilitation and Reablement support as part of their Personal Health Plan. The benefits of rehabilitation are well known to support an individual’s quality-of-life, promote independence and their self-esteem.

Imagine you had an illness like diabetes, an injury like a broken leg, or have just undergone surgery of some kind … you’d have access to individualised rehabilitation after the diagnosis and/or surgery….  Of course you would, because the ben...

06/04/2025

Yesterday's sunrise while I was driving to work... We live in a fantastic place... this reminds me to simply enjoy the moment.

30/03/2025

Young Onset Dementia is sometimes called Younger Onset dementia, Early Onset Dementia, or Working Age Dementia. Regardless of the name it’s any person with dementia under the age of 65, and it’s far more common than people think.

People with Young Onset Dementia have different experiences and often different symptoms to older people with dementia and the impact on their lives is also significantly different.Young onset dementia is any form of dementia that occurs in people...