Sorry Charlie Sheen, This is What #Winning Looks Like
I’m very proud and happy to announce that my article, “Daily Activities for Late Stage Alzheimer’s Disease Patients,” has been selected as the winning entry in The Great Alzheimer’s Blogging Competition run by The Disabled Shop Blog! These are the flattering comments the judge wrote about my post: An excellent blog – Linda identified a [...]
Daily Activities for Late Stage Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
[This post is an entry for the Alzheimer's Research Blogging Competition at The Disabled Blog Shop. The deadline to enter is March 31, 2011 so there's still time to get your entry in. Please read how to enter here. You can help raise awareness of this horrible disease plus raise money for a great cause. Let's [...]
Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers: Words Matter — 3/9/11
In honor of Words Matter Week, here are ten of my favorite quotes about words and how family caregivers can best use them . . . or not. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” ~ Blaise Pascal “The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things [...]
How Connected Are We Really? Lessons Learned from a Medical Emergency
Two weeks ago my friend, Penny, passed out while out dancing at a night club with a group of friends, including me. Here are lessons I learned from this frightening night that may be helpful to people of all ages. As I write this, Penny remains in the hospital but, thankfully, is on the road [...]
The Caregiving Words We Use Matter
Last year while I was actively caring for my mom, I attended a special presentation for caregivers at an Alzheimer’s Family Services Center. The coordinator for the three workshops started off the morning with a brief overview and asked the audience, “How many of you are care partners?” The audience didn’t respond. I thought to [...]
What to Do After You’ve Lost Your Cool with your Aging Parents
We’re all human. We’ve probably all felt the guilt and remorse after losing our cool with our aging parents, relatives or care recipients. Aside from feeling badly, what can we actively do to make amends after we’ve blown up at them? How do we begin to repair the relationship after a hurtful incident? Making up [...]
True Confessions: When I Lost Patience with My Aging Parents
In a prior post I acknowledged that in our role as family caregivers, we’ve all probably lost our patience with our aging parents or care recipients at some point. I also promised to share with you my own experience, so here goes. I Never Lost My Patience (Part One of Two) I was a long [...]
True Confessions: Have you Lost your Cool with your Aging Parents?
Last week’s post about having patience with our aging parents (aka Golden Oldies), caused me to think about the exact opposite experience. Despite our best efforts, each of us has probably lost our patience and blown up at our care recipients at one time or another, in some way or other. We wouldn’t be human [...]
Do You Have Patience with Your Aging Parents?
Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin’ groovy. ~ Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel Lately I’m more aware than ever of how fast our society moves, and how we are living at an ever-accelerating pace. People want and [...]
Hospice Care, Part 4: Mom’s Hospice Experience
This article is Part 4 in a series on hospice care. Please see the section below entitled “Related Posts” for links to Parts 1, 2, and 3 and to read more on this topic. First Time Around It Was “No Go” I was impressed with the way my dad’s final months were made more comfortable [...]
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