Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
This recent Guardian article discussing the damaging stereotypes a dementia diagnosis brings, includes interviews with Julie Hayden, George Rook and Kate Swaffer, who are all living with young onset #dementia. They are all valued members of the Young Dementia Network.
Read more here: theguardian.com/society/2026/j…
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Read more here: theguardian.com/society/2026/j…
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
The future of psychiatry will be in de-prescribing.
Trust me
We are moving in that direction
Trust me
We are moving in that direction
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The far-right is rising, but so are the people who will stop it. Consider pledging to never vote One Nation. We do NOT want a version of #Trump in Australia getup.to/21zJVsMC8lWIQ
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Rightwing operatives have registered fake progressive parties to steal votes and funnel preferences to One Nation in Victoria. But there’s a fix already on the table – and Victorians have a chance to get it passed before November. Add your name ✍️ getup.to/12yk8f3CMPEt9
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We need #HumanRights4All including people diagnosed with any type of #dementia at any age! kateswaffer.com/2026/05/20/inc…
Thanks @MaryBethWighton & @jjluhkim for your work and consent to share. FYI @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @DiverseAlz @MichelleFunk3 @DavidPocock @DementiaAllianc
Thanks @MaryBethWighton & @jjluhkim for your work and consent to share. FYI @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @DiverseAlz @MichelleFunk3 @DavidPocock @DementiaAllianc
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Really important study showing that reducing psychiatric drug use in people with dementia reduced psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations, apathy, depression and reduced falls. I hope the people on this platform advocating for increased use of psychotropics in this ence read it carefully. Link below.
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Rejecting The Health Care Trap - "An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ploy." levernews.com/rejecting-the-… concerning 🙄
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For those of us who care about the safety of people with #dementia, this is more than worrying levernews.com/the-campaign-t… @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @joannamoncrieff @robwipond @MarkHorowitz @AndrewKaufmanMD @DrDaleBredesen @DementiaAllianc @jball49
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Meant to add you @DiverseAlz (ps I'm very rarely here these days!!!) xx
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Agree, and this is why rising rates of antidepressant use among young women is so worrying. Many will have been on antidepressants for 10 years or more when they get pregnant and getting off them after this amount of time is frequently difficult
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Now the emphasis could be on @DementiaAllianc (Dementia Alliance International) cofounded by @KateSwaffer. #diversealz
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Bet you didn't know that one of the @dementiaalliance initiatives started from a conversation via #diversealz many years ago so now remembering
Romina Oliviero and of course @KateSwaffer
Romina Oliviero and of course @KateSwaffer
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
#AusDisLit nonfiction from 2026 by Kate Swaffer @KateSwaffer
The continuing pathologisation of dementia
kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/the…
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The continuing pathologisation of dementia
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End placement poverty in Australia. Please consider signing this VIP petition.
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Happy New Year... My first blog for 2026! #Dementia #DisabilityRights #UNCRPD #Audism #Stigma #Discrimination #BenevolentOthering #BanBPSD kateswaffer.com/2026/01/07/dem… @flavin_theresa @DementiaAllianc @johnzeisel @dementia_aat @demrescommunity @DementiaUK @DiverseAlz @alzheimerssoc
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Sigh. Another day, another meta-analysis which claims that continuing drugs is better than stopping them when they are stopped in 2 weeks or less. The absolute state of this field.
The review admits the longest taper was just two weeks, with many stopped abruptly. Symptoms emerging after such short tapers are far more likely to reflect withdrawal, not relapse—making conclusions about “no effect of withdrawal speed” fundamentally weak.
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