Dementia Dialogue

Episode 5: Susan and her husband were looking forward to the perfect retirement until life interrupted. Susan describes how she reframed her experience and found ways to affirm her husband’s strengths, even as they diminished. In the process, she found new strengths within herself.

Episode 4: Louise Milligan’s husband Gord was diagnosed with dementia while still teaching and raising two daughters. Louise speaks eloquently about the challenges their family faced and how she was able to use community resources to help. 

Episode 1: Our series is introduced by a panel of 4 people talking about the importance of “Pumping  Up the Volume” so that people with lived experience will have their voices heard. Panellists include advocates for people with dementia and care partners, our research associate and a dementia educator.

Episode 2 of the Changing and Adapting series features an interview with Guy Chadsey whose spouse Alison has dementia. Guy talks about some of the early indications of Alison’s condition, his changing relationship with Alison and his effort to live positively.

Episode 3: Roxanne Varey has dementia and has become an advocate for creating more opportunities for people with dementia in the workplace. Roxanne has written poetry to help her understand and express some of her inner experience.