Mary Fridley Reimagining Dementia
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Mary Fridley as guest to the show.
About Mary Fridley:
A long-time community builder, group therapist and passionate developmentalist, Mary Fridley is on the faculty at the East Side Institute, where she co-created and leads The Joy of Dementia (You Gotta Be Kidding!) and leads Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice, an international effort to creatively transform the "tragedy narrative" of dementia. She is also a guest columnist for agebuzz.com.
About Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice:
Reimagining Dementia: A Creative Coalition for Justice brings together people living with dementia, care partners, community members, activists and allies, helping professionals, artists, academics and others who believe in creativity (of all kinds) as an innovative way to transform the stigma and stereotypes of dementia and the inequities experienced by people living with it, and to effect individual and social transformation.
With 1,100 plus members in 50 countries, the Coalition is a grassroots catalyst for change and a visible "hub" and community of support for all. In 2023, we launched Taking It to the Streets, which invites members and allies to host public-facing events, activities, and conversations that present creative, collaborative and hope-filled alternatives to the fear, stigma and hopelessness surrounding dementia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top Rated Local. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.6 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking |
| 0:30.1 | time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.6 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here |
| 0:36.6 | at All Home Care Matters, something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome back. everyone's time is and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters something |
| 0:38.1 | that will hopefully matter to you today we're honored to welcome back a remarkable guest and friend |
| 0:43.5 | mary fridly welcome back mary how are you hey i'm doing well good to see you once i'm thrilled to be |
| 0:50.4 | talking to you it's been a while always a joy always a joy and we're always happy to help you guys out however we can. You know, I know since the last time we spoke, you know, there's been some changes that you've probably seen and some things that you're really excited about. But before we jump into that, why don't you take a moment and just reintroduce yourself to our viewers and listeners. |
| 1:11.3 | Okay. |
| 1:17.7 | Well, I actually entered, I mean, I've been for the last 40, 45 years. I've been very active as a community builder, activist advocate. |
| 1:24.1 | I'm a big advocate for play and performance for human beings of all ages. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm a developmentalist, which really means I want to help people grow in some creative new ways. |
| 1:36.3 | I entered the dementia conversation, if you will, out of some work we've been doing on aging generally, and by we, I mean my, and a good friend |
| 1:48.5 | and partner, Dr. Susan Mossad. |
| 1:51.5 | But once we were introduced more formally to dementia, quite honestly, we were deeply |
| 1:59.6 | concerned by what we were hearing and seeing, just from the more traditional and what we can to call the advocates for the tragedy narrative of dementia. |
| 2:10.6 | And that's obviously we thought we had something to offer. So we created a workshop and conversation series called The Joy of Dementia. You |
| 2:18.9 | got to be kidding. Which created a bit of a stir, but continues. Sadly, Dr. Massad passed away |
| 2:26.1 | about three years ago. But we both were here in the first year of COVID when obviously the whole world turned upside down. |
| 2:36.8 | And you being in the care industry know it better than anyone. |
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