Ms Melora

Dementia Care Educator, Scuba Diver, Pet Rescuer, Musician, Bariatric Living

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Person centered care. It's simple.

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What is the "reality" for people with dementia?

We look at the impact of the syndrome, efforts to tackle it, and the pioneering ways to ease the burden on those affected.

#dementia #alzheimers 

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Lessons of life passed down through generations- love, kindness, wisdom.

Help us give back to our elders by making a year-end donation to Second Wind Dreams® .

Only 4 days left of 2017 to make an elder’s dream come truehttps://www.secondwind.org/donate/.

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Perspective | Loud banging, foot pain, and flashes of light - my eight minutes as a dementia patient

A reporter who covers aging ventures into a virtual world - a much dimmer one - that provides a visceral portal into dementia

#secondwinddreams 

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Children could hold the key to beating the stigma of dementia

Our children seem to get it, let us hope that through them, we adults start getting it too, writes Jess Baker.

Schoolchildren could be a novel bottom-up way of increasing dementia literacy in adults and improving the quality of life of the nearly half a million Australians living with the disease, and the people that care for them, writes Jess Baker.

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Children could hold the key to beating the stigma of dementia

Our children seem to get it, let us hope that through them, we adults start getting it too, writes Jess Baker.

Schoolchildren could be a novel bottom-up way of increasing dementia literacy in adults and improving the quality of life of the nearly half a million Australians living with the disease, and the people that care for them, writes Jess Baker.

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This is a great opportunity to help some of our most vulnerable citizens

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Feeding a wallaby is good for the soul. (at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary)

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A view of Brisbane (at Mt Coot-tha Lookout)

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On Kuranda Railway (at Stoney Creek Falls)

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Sky rail from Kuranda through the rainforest in the rain, of course 🌴

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Lowering tide on the GBR (at The Great Barrier Reef)

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06wbO4DMmTk)

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Congress must #FundAlzheimers! Call them at 202-224-3121 & say: Pass the 2017 budget w/ planned #Alzheimers funding! http://thndr.me/cpXNZK

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Stepping Out of the Shadows: Why I am Advocating for the Rights of People with Dementia This week, we are publishing an excerpt of one of our Board members book, Ms Helga Rohra, translated from the original German, by Peter Mittler. Thank you Helga for sharing it, and thank you Peter for translating it. It is … Continue reading Stepping Out of the Shadows, by Helga Rohra →

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Enjoying a tour of the Biltmore Estate. (at Biltmore Estate)