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Via Health.com comes this article on getting health treatments paid for. Titled, "Money and Health: Paying for Treatments : 4 Ways to Get Your Medical Expenses Covered," this informative article begins: "The last thing anyone suffering from a long-term health
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As my mother's body was shutting down, her limbs looked as though they were rotting, but her heart kept beating.
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It was December in North Dakota, and the cemetery was knee deep in snow. These men were not much younger than the man they helped bury. Earlier, I had marveled at their dedication to a fellow soldier as I watched them march on aging, unsteady feet,...
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“She took my sweater! I saw her. She stole it! That woman took my sweater my mother made for me!”
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We got him a private room at a lovely nursing home nearby, where we could visit daily. We moved as many personal items into his room as possible, with lots of pictures and momentos. However, their antiques, beautiful silver, huge book collection (weeded out heavily before their last move) and personal items had to be dealt with. Who should take what? Who had room? We tried to sell some things, and had a little luck, but it was hard to let these things go. There was so much history. There were so many memories. Nearly every item had some emotional attachment. In the end, we gave a lot to charity, and kept some small items. The whole process was painful.
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How many of you, who have a person with Alzheimer's by your side, are getting a good night's sleep? Does a night here and there knowing your loved one is cared for, while you sleep, sound good?
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The authors of a neat little organizer titled, "Putting Things in Order: A Journal to Organize Your Life for the Next Generation," sent me their top ten list of things to do so you can be organized with the paperwork you want your heirs to have. Before I tell you about their book, here's the list as written by authors Ellen Baumritter and David Finkle:
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While it's well known that the drugs available now for people with Alzheimer's disease, namely donepezil (Aricept), rivastigmine (Exelon), galantamine (Razadyne), and memantine (Namenda), don't cure the disease, they do help slow the decline
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Then they giggle and – kiss. Yikes! Aren’t they kind of old for that? Our society has marginalized people over fifty when it comes to love and sex.
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Be aware that this is a journal for scientists and the article is written as such, so how much you get out of the article itself will depend on how much you've already learned about the physical intricacies of the disease.
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I'm please and honored that veteran health reporter Jane Gross listed Minding Our Elders under resources for caregivers
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States and counties already have rating systems for a wide variety of inspections which are done on a regular basis, at least in my area. The results of these inspections are available to the public, so, out of curiosity, I've looked up, on the Web, the ratings of homes I know well. Often, I've been shocked to find that they have "deficiencies."
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I've been alerted to the fack that some can't download the PDF that I posted from the Michigan Dementia Coalition titled, "Knowledge and Skills Needed for Dementia Care" - (thanks Michelle, for letting me know).
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Often the adult children need to travel south to handle emergencies. This causes problems with jobs and young kids at home. So they beg their parents to come back home. The parents balk. This is my home, now. I don’t want to leave my friends. I don’t want to leave my church. I don’t want to live in the cold and risk a fall on the ice.
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My sister was told that her colleague's mother, who was viewing the program, had said to the adult child, "Lawrence Welk looks wonderful. He just doesn't age!" To her, Lawrence Welk is alive and well and not aging, since she's seeing him on television.
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