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 [...]
Reactions to an Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis
This Associated Press (AP) headline on the computer caused me to raise my eyebrows in surprise: “News of High Alzheimer’s Risk Doesn’t Devastate” Could this really be true? The article summed up the results of a study funded by the National Institutes of Health and published in The New England Journal of Medicine on July [...]
Family Caregivers Communication Class — The Language of Dementia, Part 3
This is Part 3 in a 3-part series. Please click here to read Part 1 which contains the background ideas these lessons are built on. Also read my brief “Word of Warning” in Part 2 to keep from “shoulding” all over yourself and for a prior lesson in the language of dementia. I hope you [...]
Family Caregivers Communication Class — The Language of Dementia, Part 2
This is Part 2 in a series. Please click here to read Part 1 which contains the background ideas these lessons are built on. It isn’t easy to change our way of communicating with our memory-impaired aging parents, but in order to make their lives (and ours) easier, it is helpful to follow some basic [...]
Family Caregivers Communication Class — The Language of Dementia, Part 1
Many of our aging parents (or Golden Oldies as I prefer to call them) will eventually develop some type of memory loss. It usually starts as the forgetfulness we have come to expect with normal aging, but then it may progress to dementia or Alzheimer’s disease (AD for short, which is the most common type [...]
Please Don’t Ask Family Caregivers This Question!
There is a question I am asked very often when I tell people my mom has Alzheimer’s disease. They ask, “Does she know you?” I don’t know how to answer them. And it is a very hard question for all caregivers of dementia or Alzheimer’s patients to answer. People ask that particular question because it [...]
A New Twist on Holiday Decorating for Your Aging Parents
I just got back from decorating my mom’s room at the board and care cottage for Hanukkah. While she was being fed lunch in the kitchen, I played a CD of Hanukkah music as I cheerily put up the decorations. For about two-thirds of each day now, Mom, age 99, is in bed in her [...]
Family Caregivers Communication Class — Part 5: How to Talk with Aging Parents When They Can’t Speak
This is Part 5 in a series. Please see the bottom of this article for a link to the first four parts of the Family Caregivers Communication Class. We take talking with our parents for granted . . . until our aging parents can’t speak any longer. My mom gradually stopped speaking and since October [...]
Implement Nationwide Silver Alerts for Missing Seniors
Missing children grab headlines, but missing senior citizens are far more common. In the United States there are currently more than 5 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease and that figure is expected to grow to as much as 16 million by 2050. According to an article by Alex Johnson, an MSNBC reporter, “About 60 [...]
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