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skuaFound my most-favourite-so-far introductory dementia-carer video.Accessible, personable, engaging, burden-lightening.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeepaSnow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TeepaSnow</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DementiaTraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DementiaTraining</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA9s2vZflw4" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA9s2vZflw4</a>

skuaDiscovered <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NaniEdgar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NaniEdgar</a> singing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlohaOe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlohaOe</a>.Beatifully sad, gets the tears and sadness flowing.Which we rather need around here.Little pesky English (?) to take the focus away from the tone of the singing and instruments.If not now then when?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DementiaCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DementiaCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HomeCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tone</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Grief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grief</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMKzwVh4b0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJMKzwVh4b0</a>

skuaPhoned <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlzheimersWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlzheimersWA</a> - they're about real time support for carers (and those living with it I thnk).Phoned <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DementiaAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DementiaAustralia</a> - they provide "info" and "trainings" for carers and professionals.They both seem to be very well run, well staffed and, I guess, well funded.I'm feeling very relieved finding this quality of support available.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgedCare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alzheimers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alzheimers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dementia</a>

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skua<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AssistiveDevices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AssistiveDevices</a> and "normal devices".<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigButtonPhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigButtonPhone</a> ( works on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VOIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VOIP</a>).Six button <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SimpleTVRemote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SimpleTVRemote</a>.normal Cordless Phonenormal TV remoteAssistive forms working successfully so far.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blind</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Design</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Simplicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Simplicity</a>

skuaAutonomy & ManipulationThis stuff is more complex than I'd thought.I've bought a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedPlate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedPlate</a> and now an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElderlyRelative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElderlyRelative</a> is not rejecting their meal, or rejecting it so much less that all of it gets eaten.I'd like to hear from other carers and also parents on when you think manipulation is ok, when it fits with autonomy, when it doesn't, when it's not ok, and things like that.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Autonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Manipulation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a>

skuaWas asked to open the plastic honey tub after a 45 year old massuese known for strong massages was unable to open it even with a spoon.This is ridiculous - over half the population will be unable to open these food containers. We need government regulation.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AccessibilityOfPackaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AccessibilityOfPackaging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Packaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Packaging</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConsumingIn2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConsumingIn2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodPackaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodPackaging</a>

skuaAn <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElderlyRelative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElderlyRelative</a> is heartily sick and tired of taking 5 x <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FishOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FishOil</a> capsules the size of footballs (hyperbole).Today the first dessert spoonful of fish oil went down in seconds with no drama.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Supplements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Supplements</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConsumingIn2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConsumingIn2025</a>

skua1/3<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> Looking at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AustralianValues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AustralianValues</a>.In the light of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgedCare</a> both commercialised and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a>.Claim is that some 50% of institutionalised aged care recipients don't get even one visitor a year.It's been pointed out that many of these folk will have made choices that; A. had them lacking a support community, B. had them with no friends/family who they wanted to visit them, and/or, C. have no one wanting to visit them.Their choices form part of Australia's values.

Dr. Simon Bunchuay-PethToday <a href="https://fediscience.org/@univienna" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@univienna</a>: Celebrating our PhD candidates Magdalena Berger and Medina Adulyarat @transformres.bsky.social presenting their PhD Project on# IndigenousGeographies & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateAdaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateAdaptation</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethiopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ethiopia</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Thailand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thailand</a>'s South. 🌟 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhDChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhDChatter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a>

skuaBeen thinking about the benefits to a community, a nation, and individuals, in having to some large degree, folk with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dementia</a> being cared for by family and/or friends being <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmateurCarers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmateurCarers</a>.Some similar benefits might also come with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a>. And be largely lost with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommercialisedAgeCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CommercialisedAgeCare</a>.(To be clear, I'm not advocating that this care be imposed on family and/or friends.)

skua<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a> is difficult. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElderlyRelative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElderlyRelative</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TileApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TileApp</a> reports her credit card is astray in a restaurant some distance from home.Helpers keep getting timed out on website as they try to get a stop put on the credit card. Phone call to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ANZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ANZ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bank</a> fails as the call centre worker's accent and low volume of speech makes communication with ElderlyRelative ineffective.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FailureToMakeReasonableAdjustment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FailureToMakeReasonableAdjustment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgeDiscrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgeDiscrimination</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discrimination</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConsumingIn2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConsumingIn2024</a>

Trisha Lynn 🇵🇭 🇺🇸 🇨🇦From the Customer Service Representative trenches:I just finished speaking with a 92-year old customer whose only connection to the outside world is his email address which he has had for about 20 years. The recent deal Sandwich.net made to acquire his and many other older Minnesotans email account services returned to him a level of personal customer service that can't be achieved with a free Gmail or other email account. 1/<a href="https://mastodon.sandwich.net/tags/CustomerService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CustomerService</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sandwich.net/tags/AgingInPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AgingInPlace</a>

Lyle Solla-Yates<a href="https://fortune.com/2024/05/11/housing-market-mortgage-rates-lock-in-effect-boomer-renovations/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fortune.com/2024/05/11/housing-market-mortgage-rates-lock-in-effect-boomer-renovations/</a> “less than 4% of U.S. homes combine single-floor living with no-step entry, and halls and doorways wide enough for wheelchair” <a href="https://cville.online/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#housing</a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/aginginplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aginginplace</a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/ada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ada</a>

Deborah Elizabeth FinnMore random hashtags to tell you a little bit about me:<a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#epistemology</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/capacitybuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capacitybuilding</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/networkweaving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#networkweaving</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/onlinecommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#onlinecommunity</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/ursulakleguin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ursulakleguin</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/loismcmasterbujold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#loismcmasterbujold</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#massachusetts</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/foodie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foodie</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/earlymusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#earlymusic</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/progressivepolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#progressivepolitics</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/anthonytrollope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anthonytrollope</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#walking</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/aginginplace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aginginplace</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/meditation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#meditation</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/studyofreligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#studyofreligion</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/disorganizedreligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disorganizedreligion</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/valleygirl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#valleygirl</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/davidbowie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#davidbowie</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/nonprofit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonprofit</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/kindness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kindness</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#compassion</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/margaretoliphant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#margaretoliphant</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/equity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#equity</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/inclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inclusion</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/belonging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#belonging</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/checkyourprivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#checkyourprivilege</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/smashthepatriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smashthepatriarchy</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/donoharmbuttakenoshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#donoharmbuttakenoshit</a> <a href="https://social.overlappingmagisteria.org/tags/beyondbelief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#beyondbelief</a>

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