Trying to Stay Connected with Someone with Dementia?
Try the Phone. Maintaining some semblance of personal connection with your loved one with dementia is vitally important. Witnessing their descent into the …
Tips For Living With Hearing Loss
Whether you’re the person with diminished hearing or the family member of, you may have established some default habits that work against both of you . In …
Sloppy Speech
We Need to Take Lessons from the My Fair Lady Playbook Diction is dying! Professor Henry Higgins would flip if he rematerialized today in a world laden …
How Being Curious Can Lead to Better Relationships
Imagine you are at an all day seminar with about 150 people to learn important in depth information. Early in the afternoon, a man in the audience (tall, …
Communication, Learn How to Speak Up, Part 2
Part 2, Read Part 1 Changing your communication style The first step is to know that just being a human being, you are entitled to be heard. For that to …
Communication, Learn How to Speak Up, Part 1
Perhaps you’ve heard of the books by Erica Jong – “Fear of Flying” and her latest, “Fear of Dying”? Here’s one that needs to be …
How a Caregiver Can Communicate with Their Loved Ones
Make Suggestions with Patience and Understanding As a caregiver, make suggestions to our loved ones receiving support out of love, concern, and a desire to …
Learning to Listen To Our Honored Elders
We all have our honored elders ; people in our lives that we love, who have guided us and cherished watching us grow, that are now old enough that their …