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 One of the songs I used...

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Early Onset Alzheimer’s – Encourage, Inspire, and Inform: Country Sunshine

 One of the songs I used to sing at the nursing homes was “Country Sunshine.” This song is in many ways the story of my life. As one of my friends used to say, “You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl.” I grew up in the Ozark hills where the trees blocked some of the country sunshine. The truest part of the song was how I was happy with the simple things, and I still am. My brothers spent time on the...

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Hello! Emma and Aoife here. We are Occupational Therapy Students from Queen Margaret University who were on a 10-week placement with Alzheimer Scotland....

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 A famous quote about friendship, attributed to Edna Buchanan, is “Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.” In my case, my family is my...

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 My mom always looked and acted younger than her age. I can remember when she wore her auburn hair in a ponytail and everyone thought...

Challenging My Preconceptions....

Hi Everyone! I’m Aoife Gordon, I am a final year MSc Occupational Therapy Student (Pre-Registration) at Queen Margaret University. My last practice placement...

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Lessons from Scottish Dementia Working Group and National Dementia Carers Action Network Hello! My name is Emma Galloway, and I am a fourth year...

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Hello! Emma and Aoife here. We are Occupational Therapy Students from Queen Margaret University on a 10-week placement with Alzheimer Scotland. During this...

Early Onset Alzheimer’s...

 I recently attended a funeral where his family provided a video of Pat playing “Faded Love” on his fiddle. I first met Pat when he...

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An interview with an Occupational Therapist Hello, my name is Sarah Whyte and I’m an Occupational Therapist working in the dementia assessment wards at...

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Following on from our blog series by AHPs in NHS Lothian about how AHPs can provide rehabilitation for people with dementia the focus...