Mary Fridley Co-Founder & Coordinator of Reimagining Dementia
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Mary Fridley as guest to the show.
Mary Fridley is on the faculty at the East Side Institute in NYC, co-creator and leader of The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) and co-founder and coordinator of Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice.
Mary practiced social therapy for 12 years and uses the social therapeutic approach as an experienced teacher and workshop leader. She is author or co-author of several articles and chapters, has been interviewed by numerous media outlets and presented at national and international conferences on the Joy of Dementia and on the Coalition. Additionally, Mary is a guest columnist for agebuzz.com, a playwright and theater director and makes her living as a non-profit fundraising consultant.
About Reimagining Dementia:
Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice is an international group of people living with dementia, care partners, family and community members, dementia activists and allies, health professionals, advocates, artists, academics, policymakers, and others. Reimagining Dementia a committed to creativity, belonging, caring relationships, joy and growth for everyone.
Launched in September 2020, Reimagining Dementia currently has over 840 members* in 35 countries. Unique to Reimagining Dementia is a belief in creativity (the arts, theater, music, movement, improvisation, performance and more) as an innovative way to challenge the stigma and stereotypes of dementia and the inequities experienced by people living with it, and to effect individual and social transformation.
Over the last three years, Reimagining Dementia has emerged as a grassroots catalyst for change and a visible “hub” and community of support for all. By leveraging the collective resources, experiences and successes of our members and others with whom we are collaborating, Reimagining Dementia is giving everyone impacted by dementia the tools, understandings and support they need to thrive. We will not stop until all people across the globe have access to life-affirming alternatives in every aspect of their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things Home Care, with discussions |
| 0:06.8 | on important age-related matters and topics. |
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| 0:27.0 | time visiting us here at the show we want to say thank you for taking time |
| 0:30.0 | out to be with us today. We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is and that's why |
| 0:34.6 | we try and make each episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that will |
| 0:38.1 | hopefully matter to you. Today we are honored to welcome Mary Fridley. Mary is a coordinator of |
| 0:44.0 | reimagining dementia, a creative coalition for justice. Welcome Mary. |
| 0:49.4 | Thank you for having me. It's pleasure. Our pleasure. Mary, let's start off a little bit with telling us about your relationship to dementia. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, I mean actually I started working in the dementia arena. I mean my mother |
| 1:06.4 | eventually passed away from late stage dementia about four years ago, but I had |
| 1:12.2 | actually already started a workshop and conversation |
| 1:16.0 | series with a colleague of mine called The Joy of Dementia. |
| 1:19.2 | You got to be kidding. |
| 1:21.8 | And even then I was concerned about how dementia was being framed in our in our society |
| 1:28.0 | and of course across the world and then you know a few years later, my mom, as I said, passed away. |
| 1:34.8 | And though it wasn't my first experience, it certainly taught me a tremendous amount |
| 1:40.3 | and made everything that I had been doing come obviously come much closer to home. |
| 1:46.0 | So once your mom had passed and you know she experienced dementia you got you know more heavily involved at that point is that kind of the time |
| 1:59.0 | yes and the sound though I don't know that it was causal I think that as it happened she died I think in 2017. |
| 2:07.1 | I continued we continued the joy of dementia and then during the pandemic in early 2020 of course everybody including you and your company you and your |
| 2:18.5 | companies you know experienced COVID and and certainly the lockdowns and the, you know, the disproportionate and |
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