Amble Dementia Services

04/10/2025

The journey to diagnosis can be long, confusing, and at times deeply stressful — for both the person and their supporters.

This recent story by the ABC highlights just how many families face delays in recognising and confirming cognitive changes, often leaving people without the guidance or support they need early on.

This is where I can help.

Through Amble Dementia Services, I walk alongside individuals and families during that uncertain phase — helping to gather observations, prepare for appointments, take notes and ask questions, helping you make sense of information as it comes.

If you or someone you love is waiting, worrying, or wondering, you don’t have to face it alone.

Carers say a "broken sector" is letting down their loved ones with dementia, while a new study shows "confronting" diagnosis delays.

19/09/2025

28/07/2025

This post speaks to the heart of the work I do: staying present, connecting, and choosing to see the person still there. Always.

People living with dementia are not empty shells.

They are human beings.

Still, I hear it all the time.

They’re gone.

They’re just a shell.

They’re not in there anymore.

People say this because they’re hurting. Because the changes they see are painful and confusing. Because it’s hard to reconcile who someone used to be with who they are today.

Someone with dementia is as human as they have been for every moment of their life.

Yes, dementia changes people. It changes memory, language, personality, and behavior.

It can make someone unrecognizable in ways that feel cruel and unfair. But it does not erase who they are at their core. It doesn’t wipe away their humanity.

They feel love. They feel fear. They feel comfort.

Here’s why remembering that matters:

If we start believing that people with dementia are “gone,” we stop trying to connect. We stop talking to them like adults. We stop treating them with the dignity they deserve. And that is when the real loss happens.

People with dementia are still here. Different, yes. But absolutely still here.

And they deserve for us to see them.