We Are Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

Within each and every organisation, large or small, each and every person plays their part to the success of the project or business. 

Dementia Care is no different.

I’ve been in the Dementia Care arena for over 20years, both professionally and personally. I’ve met those newly diagnosed, those who have been “granted” time through early detection, those who have watch their loved ones through this illness and those who work the Care Sector.

I’ve been met with the opportunity to meet along my journey those who feel that they own the patent on experience and knowledge and those who are so closed down by what they have seen/learnt/experienced that they almost don’t recognise in themselves that they are acting out of grief and hurt.

Within Dementia Care, you need to be able to work together as by working in opposite directions means we will never be able to find a cure or be able to prevent this awful illness from taking someone else we love.

Throughout the last 20years I have witness very little change in Dementia Care, more and more people are being diagnosed as our population ages and as yet research has failed to detect a cure or a reason for this illness.  Most literature is written based on speculation and projection.

Rather than working together, people involved in the Care Sector try to be private and maintain their own beliefs based on their experiences or processes.  Would we not be better placed if we teamed up and shared Ideas and beliefs as opposed to knocking each other down?