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 …
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 …
“What Is Dementia Anyway?” After addressing a wonderful audience at a Community Based Presentation recently, a woman asked me: “What exactly is …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …