Thanks to Tim Parry, Senior Media and Communications Office at the The Alzheimer’s Research Trust, for judging the entries in our recent Alzhimer’s Competition and for his comments below: The Winner Daily activities for late stage Alzheimers Disease patients An excellent blog – Linda identified a need for more information about caring for someone with dementia in [...]

I am blogging about all the prizes offered in our Alzheimer’s Blogging Contest this month, but one of my favourites is MyBlogGuest. If you blog or ever plan to blog, MyBlogGuest is an absolutely essential tool to help you with two of the most difficult tasks: 1. get regular, quality content for your blog 2. [...]

As you may know, we are currently running a blogging competition to raise money for Alzheimer’s Research – and we have some great prizes. One of the prizes comes from Survey Monkey, a super company which has generously donated both a year’s use of their gold software package AND a gift pack. Besides being generous [...]

The winners of the Disabled Shop Blogging Competition have now been announced! The competition was judged by Liz MacKenzie, Director of Disability Writes, and by Barabara Howard, director of disabled charity Mosaic. Both the results and the judge’s comments follow: An interesting set of entries with, for both judges, an out and out winner. We [...]

It is the last day of our competition, and we are over the moon with the response we have had. Early on we were suprised not just at how many entries we had, but at the quality of some posts. You are a talented lot! Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to publish all of them [...]

This touching post is by Ellen Denton and is a submission for our disabled blogging contest The Lost When I brought my father, who was in his eighties, to California from New York to place him in an assisted living facility here where I could be close to him, he was in the  advanced stages of Alzheimer’s and [...]

By Kathleen A. Sawisky They don’t think I’m disabled. That’s fair enough, I suppose. I don’t look it, don’t mention it, and for the most part do a fine job of hiding it. Consider the definition of disabled by FreeDictionary, it is “Impaired, as in physical functioning.” I will never be allowed to bungee jump, [...]

Why does there seem to be more resources for the accident disabled  than the born disabled? This controversial post was submitted by Candance S.M. Harrison as part of our blogging competition. As a disabled woman trying to build a future for myself, I have noticed something deeply unsettling: Prejudice. This prejudice is not the Able [...]

This article is by Olivia, who blogs for Trying to Conceive and who was diagnosed with dyscalculia as a child. According to the Disability Discrimination Act, a disability is a “physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities”. Dyslexia, a condition that [...]

This charming post was written by Sapna Malik for The Disabled Shop Blogging Competition. Disability is something most people have not given a lot of thought to. We, as humans, tend to shy away from actively thinking about subjects that make us uncomfortable or remind us of our vulnerability. Nobody actually thinks that they or [...]