Dementia is the primary focus with Daughterly Care Community Services. Their expertise and invaluable knowledge delivers outstanding elderly home care and is second to none.
Music for people living with Parkinson’s
"The benefits of being in Parkinson's choir is that it helps them with their voice, the delay in their voice," she said.
Are Dementia ‘Behaviours’ A Result Of The Way Residents Are Treated?
One of the simplest and most effective analogies that I have ever heard used to describe dementia was that if you liken a person’s brain to a regular set of traffic lights – the average person processes thoughts in ‘green’ and ‘red,’ but living with dementia is like being stuck in ‘amber.’
Do people still talk to you? – Living with dementia
It's so important to listen to the lived experience of people living with dementia. George Rook, from the UK, is an activist working to improve life for people living with dementia. George started sharing his lived experience of dementia online in 2014 when he was diagnosed at just 63. In this post he shares a conversation he had with the daughter of a lady diagnosed with dementia. It is really worth the 3 minutes it will take for you to read.
When it comes to dementia …
(By Frank Featherstone – the husband of one of our clients)
No means no – but it ain’t necessarily so…
Once upon a time it was easy for a husband to lead his lady up the garden path and she’d go with alacrity. But like many things now it would seem that the “No” word […]
We started Daughterly Care 20 years ago…because home was a better option than the Nursing Home
Today is the beginning of a public reckoning of Australia’s aged care industry with a two-part program called “Who Cares?” airing on 4 Corners on ABC TONIGHT at 8.30pm, revealing their findings from a special investigation into Australia’s Aged Care industry. The 4 Corners aged care investigation feels so much more important to watch after […]
