As a final-year occupational therapy student, I spent my last placement at Alzheimer Scotland, and it’s been one of the most valuable learning experiences of my degree. It offered a mix of structured projects, co-production work, direct engagement with people living with dementia and their carers, and insight into the wider systems that support dementia care across Scotland.
One of the most rewarding parts of this placement was being treated like a professional-in-training rather than just a student. I was trusted to contribute to meaningful work—like updating the “Travelling...
October
is a month of witches, ghosts, nightmares, and scary movies on TV. Make believe
scary though doesn’t hold a black candle to real October.
You
don’t...
I
recently gave a presentation on Communication for family night at a local
nursing home. Since Jim had aphasia, I had experience communicating with him....
Dolly Parton, 77 years old,
performed at the Thanksgiving Halftime Show at the Dallas Cowboy’s game to
kickoff the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign. She...
