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Night Care Services a Great Idea
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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Anonymous
on 08-25-2008
Baby Talk and “Elderspeak” Disturbingly Related
She's just being nice and thinks I'm "sweet." But would she call a twenty-something woman "Hon?" I doubt it.
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Anonymous
on 08-15-2008
Dementia Care Download - Part II
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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Anonymous
on 07-28-2008
People With Dementia Can Often Enjoy the Past in the Present
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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by
Anonymous
on 07-18-2008
Early On-set Dementia: The Challenge of Getting People to Understand
I have a son who has struggled, since early grade school, with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. He's had to try to make people understand what it's like for a child to live with what people perceive as "an old people's disease."
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Anonymous
on 06-04-2008
Keeping Seniors Busy
For the last several decades, Ann has had no problem loading her dishwasher, washing her clothes or making her bed. No big deal, you know? That is until her widowed father moved in with Ann and her family.
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by
Anonymous
on 06-02-2008
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