Filter: Year 2019

Care, Caregivers, Carers, Dementia, Dementia awareness, Dementia care, Happiness, Mental health
17 December, 2019

I always find myself saying to people that guilt is a wasted emotion. It’s there to tell us not to do something again - to learn from our mistakes and to spare us from the dreaded heart-wrenching, fierce knot-in stomach feeling that can immobilise our whole bodies.

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Care, Caregivers, Carers, Happiness, Mental health
6 November, 2019

I wrote a blog for the Global Mental Health Conference This Can Happen about being a working carer and how employers can help so I've shared it below. 

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Dementia
30 July, 2019

As we all know, having a healthy appetite is one of life’s greatest pleasures – from delicious fruits and vegetables to sugary treats.

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Aspergers, Autism spectrum, Care, Caregivers, Carers, Dementia, Dementia awareness, Dementia care, Mental health
23 July, 2019

It’s a weird sentence saying that really. We generally associate grief with the loss of someone (or something) that is no longer here, so their physical presence being gone from all existence.

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Aspergers, Autism spectrum, Care, Caregivers, Carers, Happiness, Mental health
11 July, 2019

What do those inspirational quotes say…if you don’t experience the negative, you can’t truly experience the positive…well something along those lines, and it really is true. We all go through challenges and upsets; life is like one giant maze that we’re constantly trying to navigate through. 

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LATEST PODCASTS
  • An interview with Claire Grover-Forde
    29 May, 2020

    Rebecca speaks to the lovely Claire Grover-Forde who is a Support with Confidence PA. Claire has been working as a PA for four years and within the Health and Social Care sector for ten years. 

  • An interview with Dominic Cardall
    12 May, 2020

    Rebecca speaks to the lovely Dominic Cardall about his wife of 33 years Gill.

  • An interview with Charlotte Carp
    5 May, 2020

    Rebecca speaks to good friend Charlotte Carp whose mum lives with a rare form of dementia: Posterior Corticol Atrophy (PCA).