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Sorry Charlie Sheen, This is What #Winning Looks Like

Linda Abbit — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:13:35 +0000

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 need for more information about caring for someone with dementia in the later stages and answered that need with a compassionate and revealing blog. It strikes a great balance between practical advice, realism and a touching personal account of how dementia fundamentally affects a person. This is a brilliant post.

Please also take time to read the other contest entries while you’re over at The Disabled Shop Blog. They each share different and important perspectives about this horrible disease.

My greatest wish is that a cure will be found soon so that no more families have to live with this progressive and debilitating disease.

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Tender Loving Eldercare Goes Back to School

Linda Abbit — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:44:38 +0000

As it says on my About page, I am a classic member of the Sandwich Generation, and it is time for me to focus on my son. He begins his sophomore year of college in about two weeks and we couldn’t be prouder of him!

Between now and then we will be busy doing all of those fun back-to-school activities together such as: deciding what to take and what to leave home, shopping, laundry, packing, driving over to campus, unpacking, shopping again, furnishing his frat room, more shopping (for snack foods, no doubt), saying our goodbye’s (sniff, sniff), driving back from campus, and missing him terribly (sniff, sniff) until his first visit home.

Since I won’t have time to focus on, research and write new posts, I am also going “back to school” during these next few weeks! I’ll take this opportunity to learn more about the technical, behind-the-scenes aspects of blogging that TenderLovingEldercare.com needs to remain on the cutting edge in the blogosphere.

Many of you have asked about the other slice of bread in my sandwich, my Mom, and I really appreciate your concern! While she declined physically in the weeks following her 99th birthday, she seems to be stable at this new, lower level of functioning. I continue to visit her and the other residents at her board and care nearly every day.

Wish me luck — I hope I get an “A.”

And see you in September!

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What Matters?

Linda Abbit — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:47:38 +0000

On Tuesday my blog received the honor of being selected as “New Blog of the Week” by Barbara Swafford of Blogging Without A Blog (BWAB)! On a weekly basis, Barbara selects one blog that is less than four months old and highlights it on her blog. You can read the lovely compliments she paid me here.

I want to send an enormous THANK YOU to Barbara for her support, encouragement and the many lessons about blogging I have learned by participating in her excellent BWAB community! If any of you are contemplating starting a blog, be sure to start reading (and commenting ) on her blog. Thank you, Barbara, for recognizing TenderLovingEldercare.com as a blog that matters!

You All Matter, Too!

Many BWAB members, both new and old, took time out of their busy day to send congratulations to me, make a comment on Barbara’s blog, or share personal stories about their own Golden Oldies. “Thank you” doesn’t begin to express how much those comments and emails mean to me!

If you haven’t visited these blogs before now, please do so (just click on their names below)! I am listing them because every one of them writes about things that matter!

Ann at One Bag Nation

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