I Tin As Well As 1 Will!
I CAN! I WILL! is a unique data resources well-nigh dementia as well as the people who alive amongst it, a house where people amongst dementia as well as others tin create goodness from the collective life experiences of kindred spirits living to a greater extent than or less our world.
By Laura Bramly
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Richard envisioned a global interactive tool, where someone living inwards ane country—with the same symptoms as well as issues, as well as dealing amongst the same stigma—would read the thoughts of someone inwards some other country, direct keep their words to pump as well as comprise them into their ain lives. Richard had code named the projection Stand Up, Speak Out.
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Six months later, after many e-mails as well as conference calls, Stand Up, Speak Out is a reality. Having escaped its fate equally a give-and-take forum, it’s right away a amount website. The cite of the projection has morphed into I CAN! I WILL! Stand Up as well as Speak Out well-nigh Dementia, the reckon beingness that the commencement footstep to taking on anything novel inwards one’s life is to intend “I tin create this,” but the existent sign of commitment to alter is the loud as well as clear cry, “I WILL!”
ADI is hosting the site, as well as has supported its evolution both organizationally as well as financially. I don’t intend nosotros would hold upwards where nosotros are right away without their assistance.
And where precisely are we?
Up until right away nosotros direct keep had people amongst Alzheimer’s as well as other forms of dementia as well as others whose lives are touched past times the disease, such equally attention partners, families, professional person caregivers, medical professionals, academics, volunteers as well as service providers, each sitting inwards their ain corner of the world, blogging as well as posting their ideas, writing their books as well as filming their videos. Few direct keep had the accomplish of sites such equally The Alzheimer’s Reading Room, as well as for the most part, each someone has been an island, amongst few if anyone exterior of their local expanse or province knowing well-nigh the invaluable sense as well as data they are offering.
For the commencement time, nosotros direct keep an organisation amongst global reach—Alzheimer’s Disease International—hosting a website that brings together all these people as well as their ideas, their stories, their resources inwards ane house that is beingness publicized to everyone no affair what province they alive in.
I CAN! I WILL! is a unique data resources well-nigh dementia as well as the people who alive amongst it, a house where people amongst dementia as well as others tin create goodness from the collective life experiences of kindred spirits living to a greater extent than or less our world.
Visitors to the site volition honour that the ideas are organized into books—an “idea library— ane majority for each of the target audiences (but don’t hold upwards afraid to peek into the other books!). Click on a majority as well as the “chapters” of the majority are listed, wide categories of ideas bundled nether chapter names.
Click on a chapter cite as well as the “pages” of ideas are listed. Visitors tin comment on the ideas others direct keep posted, as well as at whatever signal tin click on the “Send Us Your Ideas” push as well as type inwards their ain idea. People direct keep also sent inwards their videos inwards lieu of text.
The destination of the site is to eventually direct keep hundreds of ideas pertaining to how people both amongst as well as without dementia tin heighten awareness of the affliction inwards their families, neighborhoods, communities as well as countries as well as for just living amongst the affliction on a daily basis.
ADI is helping to ensure Richard’s global vision past times informing their fellow member Alzheimer Associations to a greater extent than or less the earth well-nigh the project. Indeed, a proficient number of the postings on the website are illustration of nations other than the USA as well as the UK.
For me personally, my primary destination amongst I CAN! I WILL! is to inject a tidings into our vocabulary when nosotros are talking well-nigh dementia, as well as that tidings is HOPE.
Based on the ideas already posted on the site past times people amongst dementia—thoughts ranging from “teach us to stand upwards up as well as talk” to “hold a give-and-take at your library” to “It’s Alzheimer’s, Not the Bloody Plague!”—and other people touched past times the disease, I tin honestly tell that it’s already happening. When y'all direct keep “I CAN! I WILL!” to heart, promise can’t assist but follow.
The link to the I CAN! I WILL! website is http://www.alz.co.uk. You tin also “like” us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/icaniwilldementia, as well as follow us on Twitter at @icaniwillsuso.
Laura Bramly is a writer, editor as well as graphic designer. She of late created Life Scenes, a majority that helps people amongst moderate to advanced dementia to read again. Laura blogs well-nigh dementia-related topics at Mindset Memory Centre. She lives inwards Canada amongst her hubby as well as 2 children.
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