What if disease were a doorway, instead of a defect?
Think about this for a moment: modern medicine has made the most staggering advances. We’ve mapped the entire human genome. We’ve synthesised hormones. We’ve implanted embryos, and we’ve [...]
Welcome to my podcast!
Thank you for your patience in waiting for the first Health-e-Byte of 2026! I’m very excited to announce that I’ve been devoting my time to producing a podcast that will launch on Monday 20th [...]
A Christmas rhyme for a jolly good time!
I took this photo a few weeks ago when I presented at the Videri Rementia Retreat in Wamberal, NSW. Rementia is a composite of the words ‘remember’ and ‘dementia’ to emphasise that the goal of [...]
How to communicate effectively with someone who has dementia
I took this photo of street art in the suburb of Buckland in Atlanta, Georgia USA. After last week’s Health-e-Byte about the importance of maintaining supportive relationships, many readers asked [...]
People are more powerful than pills
This is a photo of me sitting on ‘Nine Arch Bridge’ in Demodara Sri Lanka. Also called ‘the Bridge in the Sky’, it was built entirely by local labour and completed in 1919 despite a shortage of [...]
What is Reminiscence Therapy?
After last week’s Health-e-Byte about Reminiscence Therapy (RT) and Chris Hemsworth’s documentary A Road Trip to Remember, I received several questions about how to best implement RT if one isn’t [...]
A Road Trip to Remember
Most people know that dementia — especially Alzheimer’s disease (the most common form of dementia) — profoundly affects a person’s memory, identity, and ability to communicate. Since there are no [...]
