Founder and Co-CEO of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, shares her thoughts on understanding the right time to move into care, and some tips to plan for an ageing journey with your loved one. When is the right time to move into care? There is no right or wrong...
When it comes to dementia, interacting can be challenging. Everyone wants to connect, and being able to stay engaged with people living with dementia is essential. To share this connection, someone needs to change how we have a conversation. And it’s easier for the...
Founder and Co-CEO of Group Homes Australia, Tamar Krebs, takes a closer look at how COVID-19 has impacted those living with dementia, and their loved ones This pandemic has hit every community, old and young, in a different way. It has isolated people, it has torn...
Cherished Moments When someone is living with dementia, often people will ask me: Can they experience joy even if they cannot remember the moment? Do we need memory to experience moments of happiness? Do we need memory to be able to cherish and appreciate a moment in...
A Life Story A life story is made up of many chapters and years of living experience, narrated by the people that come and go in our lives, the challenges, the moments of joy, the places we’ve travelled to, the hobbies, the jobs that we spend time in, and the personal...
There are two things that we know to be true about dementia: it involves parts of the brain dying, and the deterioration is progressive – which means things get worse over time. What does this mean from month to month, and year to year, for the person living with...
