@KateSwaffer

PhD Candidate, UniSA. Civil Rights Campaigner. Optimist. Retweets are not endorsements. #IVotedYES 💚 #KaurnaCountry

 Adelaide SA
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Joined June 2009
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Young Dementia Network
@YoungDemNetworkJun 10
This recent Guardian article discussing the damaging stereotypes a dementia diagnosis brings, includes interviews with Julie Hayden, George Rook and Kate Swaffer, who are all living with young onset #dementia. They are all valued members of the Young Dementia Network. Read more here: theguardian.com/society/2026… @george_rook @KateSwaffer @julieha15141038

‘You’re treated like this is the end’: Meet the dementia rebels – diagnosed and determined to...

Few things are more feared than a dementia diagnosis. Now people living with the condition are fighting against damaging stereotypes and demanding proper medical support

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Replying to @DrMcFillin
we all live in hope 🤞🤞🤞🤞
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Dr. Roger McFillin
@DrMcFillinJun 29
The future of psychiatry will be in de-prescribing. Trust me We are moving in that direction
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The far-right is rising, but so are the people who will stop it. Consider pledging to never vote One Nation. We do NOT want a version of #Trump in Australia getup.to/21zJVsMC8lWIQ
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We need #HumanRights4All including people diagnosed with any type of #dementia at any age! kateswaffer.com/2026/05/20/i… Thanks @MaryBethWighton & @jjluhkim for your work and consent to share. FYI @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @DiverseAlz @MichelleFunk3 @DavidPocock @DementiaAllianc
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Prof James Davies 💭@JDaviesPhDMay 17
This cartoon captures the denial & downplaying of antidepressant withdrawal by leading figures in British psychiatry (in their own words....). This is what patients have been up against....
recovery&renewal
@recover2renewMay 15
In their own words … About #antidepressants … And withdrawal from … 🤔😳
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Replying to @markhoro
we can only hope @markhoro :-(
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social
@markhoroMay 18
Really important study showing that reducing psychiatric drug use in people with dementia reduced psychiatric symptoms such as hallucinations, apathy, depression and reduced falls. I hope the people on this platform advocating for increased use of psychotropics in this population despite evidence read it carefully. Link below.
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Rejecting The Health Care Trap - "An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ploy." levernews.com/rejecting-the-… concerning 🙄

Rejecting The Health Care Trap

An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ploy.

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Meant to add you @DiverseAlz (ps I'm very rarely here these days!!!) xx
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For those of us who care about the safety of people with #dementia, this is more than worrying levernews.com/the-campaign-t… @flavin_theresa @Dem_Adv @joannamoncrieff @robwipond @MarkHorowitz @AndrewKaufmanMD @DrDaleBredesen @DementiaAllianc @jball49

The Campaign To Turn Healthy People Into Alzheimer’s Patients

Drugmakers, influencers, and industry-funded advocacy groups are pushing Alzheimer’s screenings that could label millions of Americans as sick — despite shaky science and dangerous treatments.

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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Dr Joanna Moncrieff@joannamoncrieffApr 14
Agree, and this is why rising rates of antidepressant use among young women is so worrying. Many will have been on antidepressants for 10 years or more when they get pregnant and getting off them after this amount of time is frequently difficult
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Shibley@dr_shibleyApr 9
Replying to @fraveris @TomVargheseJr
True. @KateSwaffer
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Replying to @DiverseAlz @drshibley
thanks for the tag... I can't recall where I may have written or presented about this! If you find it, please let me know xx
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Diverse Alzheimers@DiverseAlzMar 12
Now the emphasis could be on @DementiaAllianc (Dementia Alliance International) cofounded by @KateSwaffer. #diversealz
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Diverse Alzheimers@DiverseAlzMar 12
Bet you didn't know that one of the @dementiaalliance initiatives started from a conversation via #diversealz many years ago so now remembering Romina Oliviero and of course @KateSwaffer
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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
Dr Amanda Tink@amandatinkMar 25
#AusDisLit nonfiction from 2026 by Kate Swaffer @KateSwaffer The continuing pathologisation of dementia kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/t… kateswaffer.com/2026/03/11/t…

The continuing pathologisation of dementia

When people are still being medicated for understandable reactions to a terminal diagnosis of any type of dementia, for responses primarily due to the lack of post diagnostic care, the grief and tr…

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End placement poverty in Australia. Please consider signing this VIP petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/…

Expand Commonwealth prac payments to allied health and medical students

Unpaid placements are pushing future health workers into placement poverty. Petition by: Allied Health Professionals Australia Sponsored by: Helen Haines MP and Senator David Pocock

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Kate Swaffer she/her ❤️🌈🖤🌈💛🌈 retweeted
The Narcissist Box
@NarcissistBox16 Dec 2025
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