Fighting Caregiver Stress
Out of love, I brought my mum to live with us when my dad passed on seven years ago. It was fun because my mum was always the best cook and she loved working …
Topic: Alzheimer’s/Dementia
The Dementia Difference
“What Is Dementia Anyway?” After addressing a wonderful audience at a Community Based Presentation recently, a woman asked me: “What exactly is …
How Going to the Hospital can Cause Dementia
We as a country have known for quite some time that people who go to the hospital, particularly to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), have a tendency to develop a …
Planning Ahead for Dementia/Alzheimer’s
If you knew you were going to develop Alzheimer’s, what would you really want your family to do? Browsing through video choices recently, I happened upon the …
Dementia Discovery: We Had Cause and Effect Backwards
There is a common refrain in the sciences: “correlation is not causality.” In other words, the fact that two things happen to correspond does not …
The Importance of Routine for The Elderly
You probably go about much of your day on autopilot: Get up. Start the coffee. Brush your teeth. Shower. Wash your hair. Wash your hair again and then wonder …
Alzheimer’s and Genetics
I was fortunate to be a webinar attendee for a Genetic Summit this past summer. Experts in the field of genetics all had valuable information to impart. But …
My Mother’s Dementia
Even the title of this article is tough to write. But I wrote it because there is one type of dementia that, unlike Alzheimer’s, does not strike like a bad …
Ice Cream Overload
Trying to Appease Someone with Dementia We say the words “someone with dementia has memory problems” but what impact does that have on how situations are …
Should Someone with Dementia Make Important Decisions?
Remember They Don’t Remember People living with dementia can and should make choices throughout their journey. Those in the later and more severe stages of …